Abstract. As mobility permeates into todays computing and communication arena, we envision application infrastructures that will increasingly rely on mobile technologies. Tradition...
The ability to utilize and benefit from today's explosion of social media sites depends on providing tools that allow users to productively participate. In order to participa...
Marc Smith, Vladimir Barash, Lise Getoor, Hady Wir...
This paper examines tweets about two geographically local events--a shooting and a building collapse--that took place in Wichita, Kansas and Atlanta, Georgia, respectively. Most I...
The number of web pages available on Internet increases day after day, and consequently finding relevant information becomes more and more a hard task. However, when we consider ...
Aliaksandr Birukou, Enrico Blanzieri, Paolo Giorgi...
A ubiquitous city is where everything is interconnected with everything else, where information is instantaneously shared. In a U-city, people can access a variety of web data in ...