Abstract:An emerging research area in pervasive computing is the inference of social context in order to facilitate and mediate communications among collocated people. Understanding users' needs through information reasoning and leveraging principles of social networks plays an important role in the emergence of innovative computer-mediated social networks. This thesis introduces a generic social networking framework for the design, analysis and visualization of opportunistic social networks. The proposed framework is … Show more
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