Guest Editors' Introduction: Social Networks and Social Networking
IEEE Internet Computing
P3 Systems: Putting the Place Back into Social Networks
IEEE Internet Computing
ISWC '08 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on The Semantic Web
MobiSoC: a middleware for mobile social computing applications
Mobile Networks and Applications
Cluestr: mobile social networking for enhanced group communication
Proceedings of the ACM 2009 international conference on Supporting group work
What's on Users' Minds? Toward a Usable Smart Phone Security Model
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Distributing content updates over a mobile social network
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
From pervasive to social computing: algorithms and deployments
Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Pervasive services
The iBICOOP middleware: Enablers and services for emerging pervasive computing environments
PERCOM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
MobiClique: middleware for mobile social networking
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Online social networks
An Architecture for Mobile Social Networking Applications
CICSYN '09 Proceedings of the 2009 First International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Communication Systems and Networks
PrPl: a decentralized social networking infrastructure
Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing & Services: Social Networks and Beyond
Middleware Support for Mobile Social Ecosystems
COMPSACW '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 34th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference Workshops
Prometheus: user-controlled P2P social data management for socially-aware applications
Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 11th International Conference on Middleware
SCIMS: a social context information management system for socially-aware applications
CAiSE'12 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Design and validation of a light inference system to support embedded context reasoning
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Towards interactive smart spaces
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments - Context Awareness
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With the increased prevalence of advanced mobile devices (the so-called "smart" phones), interest has grown in mobile social ecosystems, where users not only access traditional Web-based social networks using their mobile devices, but are also able to use the context information provided by these devices to further enrich their interactions. In complex mobile social ecosystems of the future the heterogeneity of software platforms on constituent nodes, combined with their intrinsic distributed nature and heterogeneity of representation of data and context raises the need for middleware support for the development of mobile social applications. In this paper, we propose Yarta, a novel middleware designed for mobile social ecosystems (MSE), which takes into account the heterogeneity of both deployment nodes and available data, the intrinsic decentralized nature of mobile social applications, as well as users' privacy concerns. To validate our approach, we show how we developed two mobile social applications over Yarta, and report on both its efficiency and ease-of use by way of extensive evaluation on smart phones and laptops.