Spatial generalization has been recently proposed as a technique for the anonymization of requests in location based services. This paper presents the results of an extensive expe...
The evaluation of privacy-preserving techniques for LBS is often based on simulations of mostly random user movements that only partially capture real deployment scenarios. We clai...
Proximity based services are location based services (LBS) in which the service adaptation depends on the comparison between a given threshold value and the distance between a use...
In order to provide context?aware Location?Based Services, real location data of mobile users must be collected and analyzed by spatio?temporal data mining methods. However, the d...
The popularity of mobile social networking services (mSNSs) is propelling more and more businesses, especially those in retailing and marketing, into mobile and location-based for...