There has been extensive research into friend-oriented and professional social networking websites, but relatively little work on passion-oriented sites designed to connect strang...
Social Networking is one of the major technological phenomena of the Web 2.0, with hundreds of millions of people participating. Social networks enable a form of self expression f...
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Mohamed Shehab, Federica...
Abstract--The increasing popularity of social media is shortening the distance between people. Social activities, e.g., tagging in Flickr, bookmarking in Delicious, twittering in T...
Abstract. We propose a new approach to collaborative filtering in mobile tourist information systems based on spatio-temporal proximity in social contexts. Users store ratings and ...
Alexandre de Spindler, Moira C. Norrie, Michael Gr...
The need for controlled sharing of sensitive information occurs in many realistic everyday scenarios, ranging from critical (e.g., national security) to mundane (e.g., social netw...