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Enabling cross-platform mobile application development: A context-aware middleware
(2014)
The emergence of mobile computing has changed the rules of web application development. Since context-awareness has become almost a necessity in mobile applications, web applications need to adapt to this new reality. A ...
Key issues for the design and development of mobile commerce services and applications
(2005)
This paper suggests a new approach for developing m-commerce services and applications based on a scheme that divides m-applications into directory- and transaction-oriented classes, identifies mobile user requirements, ...
On supporting security and privacy-preserving interaction through adaptive usable security
(2014)
The purpose of this paper is to propose a preliminary framework for supporting usable security on the World Wide Web through adaptivity in user interface designs. In particular we elaborate the concept of "Adaptive Usable ...
Modeling users on the World Wide Web based on cognitive factors, navigation behavior and clustering techniques
(2013)
This paper focuses on modeling users' cognitive styles based on a set of Web usage mining techniques on user navigation patterns and clickstream data. Main aim is to investigate whether specific clustering techniques can ...
The role of twitter in YouTube videos diffusion
(2012)
Understanding the effects of social cascading on streaming media is of great importance to Web information system engineering. Given the large amount of available videos, it is often difficult for users to discover interesting ...
Towards user-centric social networks
(2012)
Social network portals, such as Facebook and Twitter, often discover and deliver relevant social data to a user's query, considering only system-oriented conflicting objectives (e.g., time, energy, recall) and frequently ...
A socio-aware decentralized topology construction protocol
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016)
Decentralized Online Social Networks (DOSNs) offer an alternative to the usual centralized solutions, that promises to preserve more control of a user's data to the user herself. An important aspect in the design of DOSNs ...
Feel the world: A mobile framework for participatory sensing
(2013)
Nowadays, smartphones have almost replaced basic feature phones all over the world. Today's smartphones come equipped with an increasing set of embedded sensors, computational and communication resources. All these gave ...
PALLAS: A querying interface for pervasive computing using handheld devices
(2004)
In this paper we describe PALLAS (PALm Logic-based Algebraic Search), a prototype architecture, design and implementation for a search interface on a portable digital assistant. PALLAS is part of the UbAgent, a middleware ...