The existence of on-line social networks that include person specific information creates interesting opportunities for various applications ranging from marketing to community o...
Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari, Raymond Heatherl...
In this paper we introduce Social VPNs, a novel system architecture which leverages existing social networking infrastructures to enable ad-hoc VPNs which are self-configuring, s...
Renato J. O. Figueiredo, P. Oscar Boykin, Pierre S...
Personalised social search is a promising avenue to increase the relevance of search engine results by making use of recommendations made by friends in a social network. More gener...
George Danezis, Tuomas Aura, Shuo Chen, Emre Kicim...
Healthcare technologies have tended to focus on electronic health records and devices (e.g., devices within the home for patients or handheld devices for nurses and physicians), a...
Social networking services well know that some users are unwilling to freely share the information they store with the service (e.g. profile information). To address this, servic...