Abstract Social Context Information has been used with encouraging results in developing
socially-aware applications in different domains. However, users' social information is …

Social context information has been used with encouraging results in developing socially
aware applications in different domains. However, users' social context information is …

Social context refers to a set of characteristics associated with multiple users such as social
tie and group behaviours. By leveraging users' social context, social context-aware …

The social computing, such as social networking services (SNSs) and social Networking
Platforms (SNPs) provide a coherent medium through which people can be interactive and …

The growth in context-aware systems and smart devices elevates another technology in
ubiquitous computing-Internet of Things (IoT), where all objects are connected. The …

UrbanWeb is a novel Web-based context-aware hypermedia platform. It provides essential
mechanisms for mobile social computing applications: the framework implements context as …

In this paper, we identify mobile social networks as an important new direction of research in
mobile computing, and show how an expanded definition of mobile social networks that …

It is important for mobile service providers to be aware of user contexts and to provide
contextually relevant mobile services to users. Thereby, in this paper, we propose a novel …

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 …

Despite the huge prospects of pervasive social computing and the extensive work in context-
aware applications, so far very limited work has focused on socially-aware applications. The …