Continued advances in mobile networks and positioning technologies have created a strong market push for location-based applications. Examples include location-aware emergency resp...
A “friend finder” is a Location Based Service (LBS) that informs users about the presence of participants in a geographical area. In particular, one of the functionalities of ...
Privacy preservation has recently received considerable attention for location-based mobile services. Various location cloaking approaches have been proposed to protect the locati...
Distributed management of user profiles and identities allow reuse of profile information for different personalization services but also raises privacy issues. Users need a possi...
—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...