Social networks reflect, to a wide extent, the real-world relationships that allow users to
connect and share information. The number of people that interact in social networks keeps …

As the number of people who interact on social networks increases, and coupled with the
greater capability made available within our computational devices, there is the potential to …

Social network platforms have rapidly changed the way that people communicate and
interact. They have enabled the establishment of, and participation in, digital communities as …

Social cloud systems, which aggregate the computing capabilities of a large pool of users,
have emerged in recent years as a key solution for resource provision and sharing in large …

Social Clouds provide the capability to share resources among participants within a social
network—leveraging on the trust relationships already existing between such participants. In …

We investigate a new computing paradigm, called SocialCloud, in which computing nodes
are governed by social ties driven from a bootstrapping trust-possessing social graph. We …

Cloud applications entail the provision of a huge amount of heterogeneous, geographically
distributed resources managed and shared by many different stakeholders who often do not …

Online relationships in social networks are often based on real world relationships and can
therefore be used to infer a level of trust between users. We propose leveraging these …

In this paper we investigate a new computing paradigm, called SocialCloud, in which
computing nodes are governed by social ties driven from a bootstrapping trust-possessing …

With the advent of cloud computing, organizations tend to buy services from data centers of
major cloud vendors. In contrast, community cloud computing as described in give the …