There is growing interest in the use of context-awareness as a technique for developing pervasive computing applications that are flexible, adaptable, and capable of acting autono...
For purposes of this paper, we define "Personally identifiable information" (PII) as information which can be used to distinguish or trace an individual's identity ...
Online social networks often involve very large numbers of users who share very large volumes of content. This content is increasingly being tagged with geo-spatial and temporal c...
Dario Freni, Carmen Ruiz Vicente, Sergio Mascetti,...
It is well known that different types of social ties have essentially different influence between people. However, users in online social networks rarely categorize their contact...
Today, there is significant sharing of information artifacts among users on various social media sites, including Digg, Twitter and Flickr. An interesting consequence of such ric...