Mobile social networks (MSNs) have become increasingly popular in supporting many novel
applications since emerging in the recent years. Their applications and services are of great …

In this paper, we address the problem of representing human actions using visual cues for
the purpose of learning and recognition. Traditional approaches model actions as space …

The convergence of computer-communication networks towards an all-IP integrated network
has transformed Internet in a commercial commodity that has stimulated an un-precedent …

Ad-hoc social networks (ASNETs) represent a special type of traditional ad-hoc network in
which a user's social properties (such as the social connections and communications …

We present Haggle, a content-sharing system for mobile devices, allowing users to
opportunistically share content without the support of infrastructure. Mobile devices share …

Opportunistic mobile social networks (MSNs) are modern paradigms of delay tolerant
networks that consist of mobile users with social characteristics. The users in MSNs …

Until recently crowdsourcing has been primarily conceived as an online activity to harness
resources for problem solving. However, the emergence of Opportunistic Networking (ON) …

In the convergence of the Cyber-Physical World, user devices will act as proxies of the
humans in the cyber world. They will be required to act in a vast information landscape …

This chapter discusses the evolution of the mobile/multihop ad hoc networking (MANET)
paradigm. This paradigm has often been identified with the technologies developed inside …

The opportunistic data dissemination problem for mobile devices is an open topic that has
attracted many investigations so far. At the best of our knowledge, none of these approaches …