Pervasive Social Computing
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- Synopsis
- This book presents a review of traditional context-aware computing research, identifies itslimitations in developing social context-aware pervasive systems, andintroduces a new technology framework to address these limitations. Thus, thisbook provides a good reference for developments in context-aware computing andpervasive 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 tomodel, represent, reason about and manage different types of social context. Itshows how users' social context information can be acquired from differentonline social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google Calendar. It further presents the use of social context information in developinginnovative smart mobile applications to assist users in their daily life. Themix of both theoretical and applied research results makes this book attractiveto a variety of readers from both academia and industry. This book provides a new platform forimplementing different types of socially-aware mobile applications. Theplatform hides the complexity of managing social context, and thus providesessential support to application developers for the development ofsocially-aware applications. The book contains detailed descriptions of how theunderlying platform has been implemented using available technologies such asontology and rule engines, and how this platform can be used to develop socially-aware mobile applications using two exemplar applications. The bookalso presents evaluations of the proposed platform and applications using real-worlddata from Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Therefore, this book is a syndicationof scientific research with practical industrial applications, making it usefulto researchers as well as to software engineers.
- Copyright:
- 2016
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9783319299518
- Publisher:
- Springer International Publishing, Cham
- Date of Addition:
- 11/02/16
- Copyrighted By:
- Springer
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Computers and Internet
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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