The Social Hourglass: An Infrastructure for Socially Aware Applications and Services

Infrastructure Aware Applications

Nexus { an Open Global Infrastructure for Spatial-aware Applications

Due to the lack of a generic platform for location-and spatial-aware systems, many basic services have to be reimplemented in each application that uses spatial-awareness. A cooperation among diierent applications is also diicult to achieve without a common platform. In this paper we present a platform that solves these problems. It provides an infrastructure that is based on computer models of...

An Adaptive and Social-Aware Recommendation Algorithm for Administration Services

This paper addresses the recommendation of online services provided by public administrations taking into account both the specific characteristics of these services and the perception of other citizens. The solution discussed is based on an enhanced hybrid model that relies on content-based and collaborative strategies aimed to exploit the information shared by other users to validate the qual...

LORE: An infrastructure to support location-aware services

With the advance in wireless Internet and mobile computing, location-based services (LBS)—the capability to deliver location-aware content to subscribers on the basis of the positioning capability of the wireless infrastructure—are emerging as key value-added services that telecom operators can offer. To support efficient and effective development and deployment of innovative location-aware app...

Prometheus: User-Controlled P2P Social Data Management for Socially-Aware Applications

Recent Internet applications, such as online social networks and user-generated content sharing, produce an unprecedented amount of social information, which is further augmented by location or collocation data collected from mobile phones. Unfortunately, this wealth of social information is fragmented across many different proprietary applications. Combined, it could provide a more accurate re...