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Mediation is an approach that allows integrating different heterogeneous, distributed and scalable data sources. The objective of our paper is to define an approach of mapping, one of the essential operations that can describe and define the set of links between the two levels of mediation system: mediator schema (global) and schemas of sources to be integrated (local). Our approach allows to define...
In Ecuador, the implementation of LTE technology is still developing by Corporación Nacional de Telecomunicaciones Empresa Pública. In the first phase of implementation they took into account the cities of Quito, Guayaquil and Ambato. This research was conducted in the city of Ambato on three mobile base stations (BTS) located in areas with high concentration of users; for data collection were used...
Radio currently is in the middle of a change process, released by new technologies in communication. These new digital spaces supply new relationship with audience and new ways of participation. This research analyses how Ecuadorian radio channels uses new technologies and social Networks in the most important social network.
Social media tools have been the main tool in many municipal portals. Municipalities have used Twitter and Facebook platforms to improve communication and speed services provisions as an initial step to become a smart city. The purpose of this research is to explore such goals in eight Mexican municipalities of the Central State of Mexico. Through a mixed research - qualitative and quantitative -...
This minitrack focuses on the interactions between citizens, government, and technology to promote, facilitate, and create smart cities. Smart City is a fuzzy concept, not well defined in theoretical researches nor in empirical projects.
The amount of valuable information shared and hosted online is increasing with an astonishing speed and the real challenge now-days is to be caught up with all that is happening near you from music festivals, concerts and operas to conferences, book launches and charity events. This is made easy by multiple social services that offer the possibility of crawling and mining data in real-time, but the...
The recent exponential growth of mobile application instances in combination with the availability of more advanced networks have led to a significant increase of the usage of mobile devices and applications. Several studies regard application usage location and time as strong contextual characteristics and infer that user mobile usage habits can be affected by the user's location, such as rural areas...
This paper presents a comprehensive empirical study on the correlations between users' interest similarity and various social features across three interest domains (i.e., movie, music and TV). This study relies on a large dataset, containing 479, 048 users and 5, 263, 351 user-generated interests, captured from Facebook. We identify the social features from three types of the users' information -...
The power of unofficial groups sometimes is stronger than official groups in the organization. The key persons in the network of organization also can help manage effectively. This research used social network analysis to investigate the effect between Facebook and LINE. We also used three indicators of degree centralities to infer the power on different social network. The results revealed the members...
Based on a dual approach, which incorporated both a literature survey as well as a direct experiment without the preamble to support any hypothesis, the objectives of the research was to determine the likeliness of a SNS users from two different parts of South Africa to accept a friend request from a totally unknown and fictitious user. The results seem to point to a general willingness to accept...
Location based social networks (LBSNs) are becoming increasingly popular with the fast deployment of broadband mobile networks and the growing prevalence of versatile mobile devices. This success has attracted great interest in studying and measuring the characteristics of LBSNs, such as Facebook Places, Yelp, and Google+ Local. However, it is often prohibitive, and sometimes too costly, to obtain...
In this paper, we discuss a new contact way for exchanging personal information using mobile phones. The idea of this invention depends on allocating a special code called Gharibi Code (GC) for each personal mobile and creating a personal information file called Gharibi Face Card (GFC), which has all specified personal data of the mobile phone user. When you request someone's GC code, the other party's...
Social media platforms are increasingly being used by governments to foster user interaction. Particularly in cities with enhanced ICT infrastructures (i.e., Informational World Cities) and high internet penetration rates, social media platforms are valuable tools for reaching high numbers of citizens. This empirical investigation of 31 Informational World Cities will provide an overview of social...
Social media for emergency management has emerged as a vital resource for government agencies across the globe. In this study, we explore social media strategies employed by governments to respond to major weather-related events. Using social media monitoring software, we analyze how social media is used in six cities following storms in the winter of 2012. We listen, monitor, and assess online discourse...
Location-Based services with social networks improve users' experience and enrich people's social live. However, location information is often inadequate due to privacy and security concerns. We seek to infer users' ‘Current City’ on Facebook for coarse location based applications. We first extract users' multiple explicit and implicit location attributes, and analyze correlations of these attributes...
Social networks such as Facebook, Orkut and so on, are repositories of information that are viewed as users' opinions. However, data mining across multiple social websites can reveal valuable factual information for both monitoring and reconstructing events. Crowd sourcing can be used on these sites to monitor `flash mob' group behaviors, loosely or formally planned activities, such as `zombie walks'...
Social media hold abundant opportunities for service providers to interact with their clients. Whereas social media as sales channels have been studied extensively in the Marketing literature, much less is known about the ways in which public sector organisations capitalize on this potential. The purpose of this study is to explore how local governments utilize online social networks as a means for...
In this paper, we present the MI-Search approach for enabling urban users to perform event-centric surfing of a multiplicity of web contents. MI-Search aims at exploiting traditional web sites and spontaneous user comments/posts in an integrated way, by relying on web data extracted from different sources and systems about the events of a selected urban space. The notion of smart city view is introduced...
Using social media analytics tools, Radian6 and Visible Technologies, Purdue Homeland Security Institute (PHSI) researchers were able to monitor, capture and analyze publicly posted online information pertaining to the Super Bowl XLVI. The study collected and analyzed data regarding the public's perceptions of the Super Bowl XLVI marketing campaign, as well as Indianapolis' hospitality, accommodations,...
Social Network Service (SNS) such as Twitter and Facebook has explosively grown nationwide since iPhone was introduced to Korea in November 2009. In addition, KakaoStory has recently opened and joined to the SNS market, and it has grown to one of the most popular SNS in the domestic market in a short period of time. Social Network Service supports not only the formation of relationship between SNS...
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