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ICDCS
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
E-SmallTalker: A Distributed Mobile System for Social Networking in Physical Proximity
—Small talk is an important social lubricant that helps people, especially strangers, initiate conversations and make friends with each other in physical proximity. However, due ...
Zhimin Yang, Boying Zhang, Jiangpeng Dai, Adam C. ...
CCR
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
On building special-purpose social networks for emergency communication
In this paper we propose a system that will allow people to communicate their status with friends and family when they find themselves caught up in a large disaster (e.g., sending...
Mark Allman
MIDDLEWARE
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A piggybacking approach to reduce overhead in sensor network gossiping
Many wireless sensor network protocols are employing gossipbased message dissemination, where nodes probabilistically forward messages, to reduce message overhead. We are concerne...
Ercan Ucan, Nathanael Thompson, Indranil Gupta
PODC
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Securing social networks
We present a cryptographic framework to achieve access control, privacy of social relations, secrecy of resources, and anonymity of users in social networks. The main idea is to u...
Michael Backes, Matteo Maffei, Kim Pecina
INFOCOM
2011
IEEE
12 years 9 months ago
Bayesian-inference based recommendation in online social networks
—In this paper, we propose a Bayesian-inference based recommendation system for online social networks. In our system, users share their content ratings with friends. The rating ...
Xiwang Yang, Yang Guo, Yong Liu