Instant messaging (IM) has become increasingly popular due to its quick response time, its ease of use, and possibility of multitasking. It is estimated that there are several mil...
Supporting awareness plays a prominent role in facilitating natural and effective communication in Instant Messaging (IM). This paper reports our empirical study of awareness in I...
Instant messaging has become a part of our daily live. Instant communication, either with a mobile device or with a computer based application, is an increasingly used form of com...
Abstract. Location is the most essential presence information for mobile users. In this paper, we present an improved time-based clustering technique for extracting significant lo...
— Due to the real time nature and buddy list presence information of Instant Messaging (IM) systems worms can spread over IM networks rapidly, causing severe damages, however, it...