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Opportunistic Social Networks for Academia [PDF]
This paper begins by describing the behavioural shift in online interactivity and how it has empowered the growth of online social networks and emergent forms of social awareness.
Tiropanis, Thanassis, Leedham, James
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Mining Location Influence for Location Promotion in Location-Based Social Networks
With the extensive application and in-depth study of location-based social networks (LBSNs), more and more businesses are utilizing the new social platform to promote their products and services.
Fei Yu, Shouxu Jiang
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The impact of location privacy on opportunistic networks [PDF]
Opportunistic networking involves forwarding messages between proximate users, who may or may not know one another. This assumes that users are willing to forward messages to each other. This assumption may not hold if users are concerned about using the
Parris, Iain +3 more
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Longitude : a privacy-preserving location sharing protocol for mobile applications [PDF]
Location sharing services are becoming increasingly popular. Although many location sharing services allow users to set up privacy policies to control who can access their location, the use made by service providers remains a source of concern.
Dong, Changyu, Dulay, Naranker
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A Multi-Element Hybrid Location Recommendation Algorithm for Location Based Social Networks
In the environment of data explosion, how to make an effective and accurate personalized point of interest (POI) recommendation in location-based social networks (LBSNs) is a challenging and meaningful task.
Ren Yue-Qiang +3 more
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Towards location-based social networking services [PDF]
Social networking applications have become very important web services that provide Internet-based platforms for their users to interact with their friends. With the advances in the location-aware hardware and software technologies, location-based social networking applications have been proposed to provide services for their users, taking into account
Chi-Yin Chow +2 more
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Context-Aware Group-Oriented Location Recommendation in Location-Based Social Networks
Location-based social networking services have attracted great interest with the growth of smart mobile devices. Recommending locations for users based on their preferences is an important task for location-based social networks (LBSNs).
Elahe Khazaei, Abbas Alimohammadi
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Reliable online social network data collection [PDF]
Large quantities of information are shared through online social networks, making them attractive sources of data for social network research. When studying the usage of online social networks, these data may not describe properly users’ behaviours.
Parris, Iain +5 more
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Increasing demand for personalized tours for tourists travel in an urban area motivates more attention to points of interest (POI) and tour recommendation services.
Junjie Sun, Tomoki Kinoue, Qiang Ma
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LocPriS: A Security and Privacy Preserving Location Based Services Development Framework [PDF]
With the ever increasing pervasiveness of devices with functionality to provide location based services comes the increased importance and reliance upon those services to provide user privacy and security.
Gareth Ayres +3 more
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