Modelling urban-scale occupant behaviour, mobility, and energy in buildings: A survey

FD Salim, B Dong, M Ouf, Q Wang, I Pigliautile… - Building and …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The proliferation of urban sensing, IoT, and big data in cities provides unprecedented
opportunities for a deeper understanding of occupant behaviour and energy usage patterns …

Exploiting personal and community context in mobile social networks

D Zhang, Z Yu, B Guo, Z Wang - Mobile Social Networking: An Innovative …, 2013‏ - Springer
Mobile social networks (MSNs) are believed to be more user-friendly and intelligent than
online social networks. In this chapter, we first extend the definition of mobile social networks …

A context-aware framework for collaborative activities in pervasive communities

C Lima, M Antunes, D Gomes, R Aguiar… - International Journal of …, 2014‏ - igi-global.com
Pervasive environments involve the interaction of users with the objects that surround them
and also other participants. In this way, pervasive communities can lead the user to …

Cross-community context management in Cooperating Smart Spaces

N Kalatzis, N Liampotis, I Roussaki, P Kosmides… - Personal and ubiquitous …, 2014‏ - Springer
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 …

Enhancing mobile social networks with ambient intelligence

K Doolin, N Taylor, M Crotty, M Roddy… - … Social Networking: An …, 2014‏ - Springer
Mobile social computing has exploded into people's lives during the past 10 years, but to
become truly pervasive it needs to be much more context-aware and personalizable. The …

Abacus: a service-oriented programming language for grid applications

X Wang, L **ao, W Li, H Yu, Z Xu - 2005 IEEE International …, 2005‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents Abacus, a service-oriented programming language designed for the
development of grid applications. Abacus considers that all the grid resources constitute a …

Enhancing social media with pervasive features

I Roussaki, N Kalatzis, N Liampotis, E Jennings… - Social Computing and …, 2014‏ - Springer
During the last decade, social media have enjoyed meteoric success in bringing people
together online. On the other hand, pervasive computing assists users in their everyday …

Addressing the context-awareness requirements in personal smart spaces

N Liampotis, N Kalatzis, I Roussaki… - 2012 IEEE Asia …, 2012‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The provision of pervasive computing services is a challenging research area. This paper
elaborates on the notion of Personal Smart Spaces (PSSs) that allows the delivery of …

Community context management research and challenges in pervasive and social computing

N Kalatzis, N Liampotis, I Roussaki… - 2013 IEEE …, 2013‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Context-awareness is one of the main aspects of pervasive computing environments.
Recently, some social networking systems have also started to exploit context information …

Context and community awareness in support of user intent prediction

N Kalatzis, I Roussaki, N Liampotis, P Kosmides… - Context in Computing: A …, 2014‏ - Springer
Proactive behaviour of pervasive computing systems cannot be realised without the
establishment of suitable and reliable user intent prediction facilities. Most of the existing …