Human mobility patterns reflect many aspects of life, from the global spread of infectious
diseases to urban planning and daily commute patterns. In recent years, the prevalence of …

As pervasive computing meets social networks, there is a fast growing research field called
pervasive social computing. Applications in this area exploit the richness of information …

Social networks represent a sophisticated tool for accessing the preferences and properties
of individuals and groups. Thus, they potentially allow up-to-date, richly annotated …

With the recent proliferation of smart phones, they become useful tools to implement high-
confidence cyber-physical systems. Among many applications, context sharing systems in …

By recruiting large numbers of people online to perform small tasks, researchers can
perform important assessments that are hard to obtain otherwise, at a very reasonable cost …

The progress of the Internet of Things (IoT) has enhanced real-time accessibility on smart
things, and the advent of online social network (eg Facebook, Twitter, and Google+) have …

Just as coordinate-oriented location-based applications have exploded recently with
mapping services, new semantic location services will be critical for the next wave of killer …

With the recent popularization of smart phones, context sharing systems in mobile
environment attract attention of people. Mobile context sharing systems can share more …

Purpose–The key purpose of this paper is to overview the many issues related to the
integration of social sensing and pervasive sensing in the support of adaptive context-aware …

It is possible today to collect streams of data from sensors in the environment (eg, on walls of
buildings) or attached to individuals (eg, badges that record location and with whom one is …