Using physical context in a mobile social networking application for improving friend recommendations

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conferences on Internet of Things and Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, iThings/CPSCom 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 602-609

  Xu, Bin ^a   Chin, Alvin ^a   Wang, Hao ^a   Weng, Hao ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Friend recommendation; Mobile social network; Physical context; Proximity

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT-AWARE; CONTEXT-BASED; FACEBOOK; FRIEND RECOMMENDATION; MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORKS; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; PHYSICAL CONTEXT; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; PROXIMITY; USER STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; INTERNET;

SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

EID: 84863233717     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iThings/CPSCom.2011.76     Document Type: Conference Paper

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