—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. ...
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...
Many wireless sensor network protocols are employing gossipbased message dissemination, where nodes probabilistically forward messages, to reduce message overhead. We are concerne...
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...
—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 ...