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Social networking applications are changing the way people communicate with their peers and family. Social networking applications have several features that help in connecting one to another, from finding old friends to browsing for new friends and contacts. To harness the true power of social networking, sometimes it may be important to seamlessly identify and connect individuals who are geographically...
Crowdsourcing is a new paradigm that has influenced the businesses, emergency management, collaboration and online interaction. The term crowd source means tapping the power of crowd. Research in crowd sourcing involves issues such as quality of data, incentives, working modal and contracts. This research deals with the issues of uncertainty and quality of social mobile computing systems. It suggests...
Nowadays Social Networking phenomenon is gaining a significant momentum. Social Network's users are disclosing a lot of information about their relationships, profiles, preferences and interests. In this paper we describe the achievement of a context Aware platform which leverages a user's Social graph to provide pervasive computing applications based on context awareness. The platform's goal is to...
Services have become increasingly important in today's Web-based applications. Users can access services in an anytime, anywhere manner using a wide variety of mobile devices. Mobile services are a key driver in today's telecommunication market, even though the potential of mobile services has not been fully exploited in existing telecommunication systems. A main driver in these markets are context-...
Context-aware services, such as location-based services, augmented reality applications, smart enterprise or assisted living applications, constitute a cornerstone of the Future Internet. One important part of such applications is context information that describes the situation in which users consume the service. While earlier context referred mainly to location information provided by network operators,...
Human activity is highly influenced by the context and environment of the user. Presence of other users in the vicinity can also influence the context of use and thus activity. In ubiquitous computing environments, people are surrounded by numerous computing devices helping them to carry out various tasks. However, users seek precise and fine-grained information that is not provided by the computing...
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