In this report we consider a mobile ad hoc network setting where users of Bluetooth enabled devices meet and communicate opportunistically as when random people meet in a cafe, or researchers meet at a conference. Ad hoc opportunistic contacts are built on the basis of pre-defined relationships in online social networks. Our approach distinguishes itself from previous work in the area by three ...

The aim of this research is to help advance a better understanding of digital advertising innovation adoption, consumer acceptance of customized advertising, and the influence of customized advertising on product purchase intent via a mobile social network. To this end, two types of questionnaires, including an open questionnaire filled up by 16 experts and university professors was designed to...

1. MOTIVATION Mobile crowdsensing aims to provide a mechanism to involve participants from the general public to efficiently and effectively contribute and utilize context-related sensing data from their mobile devices in solving specific problems in collaborations. Also, a remarkable trend in mobile computing is the increasing use of mobile devices to access social networking services. The wid...

The high penetration rate of mobile internet access makes the social networking tools ubiquitous. Through social networking tools, people now can easily contact others for social purpose as well as for work purpose. As a result, mobile social networking tools are now blurring the boundary between work and family domains and creating a new work-life relationship. Using social networking tools fo...

Mobile social networking is social networking where one or more individuals of similar interests or commonalities, conversing and connecting with one another using the mobile phone. With the development and proliferation of smart phone devices and social network systems such as Facebook and MySpace, research on mobile social network gains huge attention from the academic community. The migratio...

Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) is the emerging and well accepted concept that significantly removes the constraints of mobile devices in terms of storage and computing capabilities and improves productivity, enhances performance, saves energy, and elevates user experience. The consolidation of cloud computing, wireless communication infrastructure, portable computing devices, locationbased servic...

In this article, we present an idea of combining social networking websites and modern mobile devices abilities to transfer social networking activity to a higher level. Nowadays, these devices and websites are used to offer ability of remote communication (phone calls, message exchange etc.), which potentially can be used to notify people about meetings in the real world. Since the current soc...

With the proliferation of the Internet, different online representations of social networks emerged, so-called online social networks (OSN), which allow for reflecting and building durable social networks over large distances. Unlike relationships in the physical world, OSN do not require a user to keep a connection alive by communicating at least sporadically. Instead, they foster the passive ...