In this paper, we introduce SCACS, a Social Context-Aware Communication System that facilitates face-to-face communications between old-timers and newcomers in a research communit...
—Receiver-location privacy is an important security requirement in privacy-preserving Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs), yet the unavailable receiver’s location information ma...
User generated content that appears on weblogs, wikis and social networks has been increasing at an unprecedented rate. The wealth of information produced by individuals from diff...
: The power of the Web is enhanced through the network effect produced as resources link to each other with the value determined by Metcalfe's law. In Web 2.0 applications, mu...
The “small world” phenomenon, i.e., the fact that the global social network is strongly connected in the sense that every two persons are inter-related through a small chain o...