A picture of instagram is worth more than a thousand words: Workload characterization and application

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCoSS 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 123-132

  Silva, Thiago H ^a   Melo, Pedro O S Vaz De ^a   Almeida, Jussara M ^a   Salles, Juliana ^b   Loureiro, Antonio A F ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

characterization; crowdsensing; Instagram; Participatory sensing; social networks

Indexed keywords

CROWDSENSING; FUNDAMENTAL TOOLS; GLOBAL COVERAGE; INSTAGRAM; PARTICIPATORY SENSING; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WORKLOAD CHARACTERIZATION;

CHARACTERIZATION; SENSORS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84883347030     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DCOSS.2013.59     Document Type: Conference Paper

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