Since July 2013, a lot of effort has been invested into spy-resistant application development. ”Surveillance” and ”privacy” became terms heard more often, both in informal conversations and in security research community. Different initiatives took a place world-wide by Electronic Frontier Foundation and similar organizations to fight for the Internet as it is used to be (e.g. ”The day we fight...

E cient group communication within the Internet has been implemented by multicast. Unfortunately, its global deployment is missing. Nevertheless, emerging and progressively establishing popular applications, like IPTV or large-scale social video chats, require an economical data distribution throughout the Internet. To overcome the limitations of multicast deployment, we introduce and analyze B...

Black men who have sex with men (BMSM) are disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic, yet few prevention interventions have been developed specifically for them. Recent studies suggest that the Internet is a promising intervention delivery avenue. We describe results from our formative work in developing a theory-based online HIV/STI prevention intervention for young BMSM including focus ...

Live chats have become a popular form of communication, connecting people all over the globe. We believe that one of the simplest approaches for providing topic information to users joining a chat is keywords. In this paper, we present a method to automatically extract contextually relevant keywords for multi-party live chats. In our work, we identify keywords that are associated with specific ...

Collective emotional behavior of users is frequently observed on various Web portals; however, its complexity and the role of emotions in the acting mechanisms are still not thoroughly understood. In this work, using the empirical data and agent-based modeling, a parallel analysis is performed of two archetypal systems—Blogs and Internet-Relayed-Chats—both of which maintain self-organized dynam...

It is a broad survey of Frame Relay Networks-both from a designer's and user's perspective. It includes a bibliography and a set of WWW sites with information on Frame Relay Networks.

this study aims at explaining informal internet-based chat format with respect to its genre and writing components and system. the researchers analyzed 53 chat samples which were produced by 53 iranian students in high intermediate and advanced levels of english in a private institute while chatting with foreigners. besides the genre analysis, the purposes why people all around the world chat o...

This present study explores the advantages and disadvantages of WhatsApp (WA) as a learning tool during Covid-19 pandemic. WA is messaging application that can be installed on smartphones has many useful features. Researchers are interested in researching since students lecturers choose an for continuous while one knows applications actually intended learning. The design this research was mix m...