With the proliferation of mobile devices (e.g., PDAs, cell phones, etc.), location-based services have become more and more popular in recent years. However, users have to reveal ...
Wei-Shinn Ku, Roger Zimmermann, Wen-Chih Peng, Sus...
Abstract. The advances in wireless communications along with the exponential growth of transistors per integrated circuit lead to a rapid evolution of Wireless Sensor Devices (WSDs...
Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Vana Kalogeraki, Dimi...
The rapid growth of heterogeneous devices and diverse networks in our daily life, makes it is very difficult, if not impossible, to build a one-size-fits-all application or protoc...
Shortest path computation is one of the most common queries in location-based services that involve transportation networks. Motivated by scalability challenges faced in the mobil...
—Social network information is now being used in ways for which it may have not been originally intended. In particular, increased use of smartphones capable of running applicati...