Smartphones nowadays have become indispensable personal gadgets to support our
activities in almost every aspect of our lives. Thanks to the tremendous advancement of …

Ensuring the confidentiality of private data stored in our technological devices is a
fundamental aspect for protecting our personal and professional information. Authentication …

Background Depression is a prevalent mental health challenge. Current depression
assessment methods using self-reported and clinician-administered questionnaires have …

Smartphone usage is a hot topic in pervasive computing due to their popularity and personal
aspect. We present our initial results from analyzing how individual differences, such as …

This paper proposes a novel participant selection framework, named CrowdRecruiter, for
mobile crowdsensing. CrowdRecruiter operates on top of energy-efficient Piggyback …

Abstract We describe Device Analyzer, a robust data collection tool which is able to reliably
collect information on Android smartphone usage from an open community of contributors …

This paper proposes a novel task allocation framework, CrowdTasker, for mobile
crowdsensing. CrowdTasker operates on top of energy-efficient Piggyback Crowdsensing …

Abstract Background Protein kinase N2 (PKN2) is a PKC-related serine/threonine-protein
kinase. PKN2 is required for tumor cell migration, invasion and apoptosis. However, the …

The security of Android depends on the timely delivery of updates to fix critical
vulnerabilities. In this paper we map the complex network of players in the Android …

This work introduces a set of scalable algorithms to identify patterns of human daily
behaviors. These patterns are extracted from multivariate temporal data that have been …