We describe a system for recommending people to contact based on similar interests and activities as part of a company-wide social networking site. Our contact recommendation service aggregates input from multiple on-line data sources and combines them using a Bayesian noisy-MAX function to generate a rating of the overall match between two users. The system is running as part of an experimenta...

SAIL is a Framework Programme 7 project that aims at providing scalable and adaptive solutions to enhance the Internet Although not a formal continuation of the 4WARD project, SAIL integrates many of the advanced concepts developed there. One of the focuses of the project, Cloud networking (CloNe), can be conceived as the successor of the Virtual Networks activities in 4WARD. This article conce...

A key issue of future wireless communication systems is that they have to be adaptive. In the Adaptive Wireless Networking (AWGN) project we aim at the implementation of adaptive wireless communication systems in a heterogeneous reconfigurable System-on-a-Chip (HRSoC). We introduce our methodologies for analyzing and mapping DSP functionality in dynamically reconfigurable heterogeneous hardware...

In this paper, we propose and present a practical tool for social networking services that can be used to help users find the opinion leaders or influential users in a certain community. This tool can act as a front-end to existing social networking services such as Twitter and gives a list of influential users in their network given a topic. Our approach differs from most of existing recommend...

Although autonomic networking has beeen discussed in related research activities in the last few years, there is neither a commonly accepted model nor a common understanding of the necessary components of an autonomic networking environment, which are also practically applicable. We present a simple model based on the notion of self that is perceived by human beings and deduce its components fr...

Wine-blogs are important for the information provision and promotion of wine industry and tourism activities related to wine. The paper records 1305 wine-blogs and their inter-linkages through their blogrolls. It uses Social Network Analysis to study blogs’ networking characteristics and connectivity. The study proposes five graph-theoretic indexes and explores whether wine-blogs are making use...

The use of computing resources on network is becoming active in the Internet and private networks. OpenFlow/Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is drawing attention as a method to control network virtualization for the cloud computing services and other carrier services. This paper introduces examples of OpenFlow/SDN technologies applied to commercial cloud services. Various activities to expand ...

The Live Social Semantics is an innovative application that encourages and guides social networking between researchers at conferences and similar events. The application integrates data and technologies from the semantic web, online social networks, and a face-to-face contact sensing platform. It helps researchers to find like-minded and influential researchers, to identify and meet people in ...

Optimization has been widely used in recent design of communication and networking systems. One major hurdle in this endeavor lies in the nonconvexity of many optimization problems that arise from practical systems. To address this issue, we observe that most nonconvex problems encountered in communication and networking systems exhibit monotonicity or hiddenmonotonicity structures. A systemati...

Semantic web technologies have been applied to many aspects of learning content authoring including semantic annotation, semantic search, dynamic assembly, and personalization of learning content. At the same time, social networking services have started to play an important role in the authoring process by supporting authors' collaborative activities. Whether semantic web technologies and soci...