Location-based advertising (LBA) allows the delivery of advertising messages to consumers
in places that are known for their particular high and positive advertising effect. While LBA is …

Advertising is a critical part of the Android ecosystem---many applications use one or more
advertising services as a source of revenue. To use these services, developers must bundle …

Content and services which are offered for free on the Internet are primarily monetized
through online advertisement. This business model relies on the implicit agreement between …

The era of pervasive computing has resulted in countless devices that continuously monitor
users and their environment, generating an abundance of user behavioural data. Such data …

Evolutionary algorithms are metaheuristic algorithms that provide quasioptimal solutions in a
reasonable time. They have been applied to many optimization problems in a high number …

Objective To assess the availability, readability, and privacy-related content of the privacy
policies and terms of agreement of mental health apps available through popular digital …

Most online platforms, represented by news media, are keen to adopt a business model
based on user subscription prices and advertising prices. However, in the context of the …

Community sensing, fusing information from populations of privately-held sensors, presents
a great opportunity to create efficient and cost-effective sensing applications. Yet …

Abstract “Tracking” is the collection of data about an individual's activity across multiple
distinct contexts and the retention, use, or sharing of data derived from that activity outside …

Dynamic and flexible business relationships are expected to become more important in the
future to accommodate specialized change requests or small-batch production. Today …