—The advent of distributed and ad-hoc-connected systems such as in Ambient Intelligence applications confronts developers with the question on how to specify QoS- and security po...
In the last several years, micro-blogging Online Social Networks (OSNs), such as Twitter, have taken the world by storm, now boasting over 100 million subscribers. As an unparalle...
Emiliano De Cristofaro, Claudio Soriente, Gene Tsu...
Gamification, the use of game mechanics in non-gaming applications, has been applied to various systems to encourage desired user behaviors. In this paper, we examine patterns of ...
Jennifer Thom-Santelli, David R. Millen, Joan Morr...
Abstract. Workload characterization is important for understanding how systems and services are used in practice and to help identify design improvements. To better understand the ...
Social Event Radar is a new social networking-based service platform, that aim to alert as well as monitor any merchandise flaws, food-safety related issues, unexpected eruption o...
Wen-Tai Hsieh, Chen Ming Wu, Tsun Ku, Seng-cho Tim...