Today’s mobile applications, spanning from file storage and syncing, place checking in and tagging, multimedia sharing, streaming and recommendation, to social and professional networking, rely a lot on cloudbased services, which in turn offer increasingly more functionalities through their publicly available APIs. Users have greeted this abundance of services with even greater demand for innov...

Disc Jokeys (DJs) generally mix music in a confined isolated space. This can make the DJ have depression sentiments and it can also difficult the DJ's understanding of his public. We present Enchantment Under The Sea: a new intelligent environment that allows the disc jokey to roam freely, interact directly with his audience, receive informative feedback about the public's social interactions, ...

There is a growing awareness and interest in the issues of accountability and transparency in the pursuit of digital privacy. In previous work, we asserted that systems needed to be “policy aware” and able to compute the likely compliance of any digital transaction with the associated privacy policies (law, rule, or contract). This paper focuses on one critical step in respecting privacy in a d...

When allocating indivisible objects, agents may be partitioned into several groups and different groups are granted different priority rights. Group-wise random serial dictatorship (GRSD) and group-wise probabilistic serial mechanism (GPS) can be applied to such problems to restore fairness within and across groups. GPS outperforms GRSD not only in efficiency but also in stability ex-ante. The ...

In this paper dedicated to Carlos Alchourrón, we review an issue that emerged only after his death in 1996, but would have been of great interest to him: To what extent do the formal operations of AGM belief change respect criteria of relevance? A natural (but also debateable) criterion was proposed in 1999 by Rohit Parikh, who observed that the AGM model does not always respect it. We discuss ...

leaving one’s parental home disrupts place attachment, described as the affective bond or link between one individual and a specific place and/or the people living in that place. in other words, because students move away from their parents, their friend and their hometown, their bonds with these people and their hometown are disrupted. although moving disrupts place attachment to their hometow...

With the global pandemic of COVID-19 completing one year, this paper intends to analyse perceptions public transport users about implementation smart city technologies. Two aspects were analysed, namely: perception safety regarding use surveillance technologies in containment virus; and same data protection privacy. After identification choice initiatives cities be addressed, a questionnaire wa...

The purpose of this research, is to study factors influencing privacy concerns about data security and protection on social network sites and its’ influence on self-disclosure. 100 articles about privacy protection, data security, information disclosure and Information leakage on social networks were studied. Models and algorithms types and their repetition in articles have been distinguished a...