Overview
- Demonstrates how users' social context information can be acquired from different online social networks and used to develop innovative smart mobile applications
- Introduces a novel framework to address the key challenges in developing socially-aware applications
- Presents two case studies that validate and evaluate the different functionalities of the framework and its underlying approach and platform
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This book presents a review of traditional context-aware computing research, identifies its limitations in developing social context-aware pervasive systems, and introduces a new technology framework to address these limitations. Thus, this book provides a good reference for developments in context-aware computing and pervasive social computing. It examines the emerging area of pervasive social computing, which is a novel collective paradigm derived from pervasive computing, social media, social networking, social signal processing and multimodal human-computer interaction.
This book offers a novel approach to model, represent, reason about and manage different types of social context. It shows how users’ social context information can be acquired from different online social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google Calendar. It further presents the use of social context information in developing innovative smart mobile applications to assist users in their daily life. The mix of both theoretical and applied research results makes this book attractive to a variety of readers from both academia and industry.
This book provides a new platform for implementing different types of socially-aware mobile applications. The platform hides the complexity of managing social context, and thus provides essential support to application developers for the development of socially-aware applications. The book contains detailed descriptions of how the underlying platform has been implemented using available technologies such as ontology and rule engines, and how this platform can be used to develop socially-aware mobile applications using two exemplar applications. The book also presents evaluations of the proposed platform and applications using real-world data from Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Therefore, this book is a syndication of scientific research with practical industrial applications, making it useful to researchersas well as to software engineers.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Preliminaries
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Social Context Modelling, Reasoning and Management
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Platform Implementation, Case Studies and Evaluations
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Back Matter
Reviews
“The book is well organized and nicely illustrated: it contains flowcharts, schemes, and screenshots of the software products. … It is a useful piece of work, especially for programmers or academics who are interested in either a theoretical or practical point of view of socially aware systems. It is an accomplished and valuable monograph of socially aware systems.” (Svetlana Segarceanu, Computing Reviews, April, 2017)
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pervasive Social Computing
Book Subtitle: Socially-Aware Pervasive Systems and Mobile Applications
Authors: Muhammad Ashad Kabir, Jun Han, Alan Colman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29951-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-29949-5Published: 23 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80693-8Published: 27 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-29951-8Published: 11 May 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 282
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 79 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computer Communication Networks, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)