Pervasive Computing
Context awareness for group interaction support
Proceedings of the second international workshop on Mobility management & wireless access protocols
A context-aware group management middleware to support resource sharing in MANET environments
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Mobile data management
Group-awareness for Mobile Cooperative Learning
WMTE '06 Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technology in Education
Ontology-based context synchronization for ad hoc social collaborations
Knowledge-Based Systems
Fusing mobile, sensor, and social data to fully enable context-aware computing
Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems & Applications
Movement-based group awareness with wireless sensor networks
PERVASIVE'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Pervasive computing
A framework and an architecture for context-aware group recommendations
CRIWG'10 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Collaboration and technology
WhozThat? evolving an ecosystem for context-aware mobile social networks
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
SOCIETIES: where pervasive meets social
The Future Internet
Opportunistic IoT: Exploring the harmonious interaction between human and the internet of things
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
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Recently, social networks have become the most prevalent IT paradigm, as the vast majority of Internet users maintain one or multiple social networking accounts. These accounts, irrespectively of the underlying service, contain rich information and data for the owner's preferences, social skills, everyday activities, beliefs and interests. Along with these services, the computation, sensing and networking capabilities of the state of the art mobile and portable devices, with their always-on mode, assist users in their everyday lives. Thus, the integration of social networking services with current pervasive computing systems could provide the users with the potential to interact with other users that have similar interests, preferences and expectations; and in general, the same or similar context, for limited or not time periods, in order to ameliorate their overall experience, communicate, socialise and improve their everyday activities with minimal effort. This paper introduces a cross-community context management framework that is suitable for Cooperating Smart Spaces, which couple the advantages of pervasive computing and social networking. This framework goes beyond the state of the art, among others, in that cross-community context from a multitude of sources is collected and processed to enhance the end user experience and increase the perceived value of the services provided.