A social network approach to resolving group-level conflict in context-aware services

Social Pervasive Systems - The Integration of Social Networks and Pervasive Systems

“…The year 2009 has witnessed many contributions including: Social context-aware browsing to improve search techniques (Vassena, 2009), applying the social approach in resolving context-aware system group conflicts (Kwon, 2009) (Beach et al, 2010), social context-aware services that feed into social networks (Santos et al, 2009), adaptation and support for manual control of context-aware systems (Beach et al, 2010) to gain users' trust and confidence, social pervasive e-tourism that infers user context and mobility profile to provide recommendation services (Garcia-Crespo et al, 2009) (Kompatsiaris et al, 2010), and integrating online user profiles with face-to-face presence (den Broeck et al, 2010). In 2010, a closer fusion among context-awareness and online social networks, resulted in the following contributions: Context fusion to improve new forms of sensors such as the calendar (Lovett et al, 2010), logical sensor generation for individuals/group action recommendation (Beach et al, 2010), brokerbased social matching service that supports opportunistic social networking in DTNs (Mokhtar et al, 2010), recommending and monitoring social relations as proposed by FriendSensing and SensingHappiness (Quercia et al, 2010), and finally integrating user experience in virtual worlds with the real world, as in SecondLife, by feeding current user actions -being extracted from the mobile sensors -into a virtual world account (Mahmud et al, 2010).…”