We propose a novel generic trust management framework for crowdsourced IoT services.
The framework exploits a multi-perspective trust model that captures the inherent …

Homophily is a phenomenon observed very frequently in social networks and is related with
the inclination of people to be involved with others that exhibit similar characteristics. The …

Location-based social discovery networks (LBSD) is an emerging category of location-
based social networks (LBSN) that are specifically designed to enable users to discover and …

As mobile devices are becoming ubiquitous nowadays, the geographical activities and
interactions of human beings can be easily recorded and accessed. Each mobile individual …

Network connections have been shown to be correlated with structural or external attributes
of the network vertices in a variety of cases. Given the prevalence of this phenomenon …

Location-based social networks (LBSNs) allow users to share the locations that they have
visited with others in a number of ways. LBSNs like Foursquare allow users to 'check in'to a …

Analyzing and understanding the movement patterns of the citizen's with in a city, plays an
important role in urban and transportation planning. Though many recent research papers …

Businesses are one of the major stakeholders of the location-based social network (LBSN)
platform. Predicting popularity of businesses in LBSN can help in future business planning …

Models to predict the future location of users have been developed in the past few decades.
However, these efforts cannot drive applications related to location-based targeting since …

A location-based social network is a network representation of social relations among
actors, which not only allow them to connect to other users/friends but also they can share …