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A Centrality Approach to Select Offloading Data Aggregation Points in Vehicular Sensor Networks
Douglas Moura, Geymerson S. Ramos, Andre L. L. Aquino +1
This work proposes a centrality-based approach to identify data offloading points in a VSN. The solution presents a scheme to select vehicles used as aggregation points to collect…
Automatic Extraction of Urban Outdoor Perception from Geolocated Free-Texts
Frances Santos, Thiago H Silva, Antonio A F Loureiro +1
The automatic extraction of urban perception shared by people on location-based social networks (LBSNs) is an important multidisciplinary research goal. One of the reasons is becau…
Uncovering Spatiotemporal and Semantic Aspects of Tourists Mobility Using Social Sensing
Ana P G Ferreira, Thiago H Silva, Antonio A F Loureiro
Tourism favors more economic activities, employment, revenues and plays a significant role in development; thus, the improvement of this activity is a strategic task. In this work,…
GRM: Group Regularity Mobility Model
Ivan O. Nunes, Clayson Celes, Michael D. Silva +2
In this work we propose, implement, and evaluate GRM, a novel mobility model that accounts for the role of group meeting dynamics and regularity in human mobility. Specifically, we…
Gender Matters! Analyzing Global Cultural Gender Preferences for Venues Using Social Sensing
Willi Mueller, Thiago H Silva, Jussara M Almeida +1
Gender differences is a phenomenon around the world actively researched by social scientists. Traditionally, the data used to support such studies is manually obtained, often throu…
GROUPS-NET: Group Meetings Aware Routing in Multi-Hop D2D Networks
Ivan O. Nunes, Clayson Celes, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo +1
In the next generation cellular networks, device-to-device (D2D) communication is already considered a fundamental feature. A problem of multi-hop D2D networks is on how to define…
Group Mobility: Detection, Tracking and Characterization
Ivan Oliveira Nunes, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, Antonio A. F. Loureiro
In the era of mobile computing, understanding human mobility patterns is crucial in order to better design protocols and applications. Many studies focus on different aspects of hu…
You are What you Eat (and Drink): Identifying Cultural Boundaries by Analyzing Food & Drink Habits in Foursquare
Thiago H Silva, Pedro O S Vaz de Melo, Jussara Almeida +2
Food and drink are two of the most basic needs of human beings. However, as society evolved, food and drink became also a strong cultural aspect, being able to describe strong diff…
Universal and Distinct Properties of Communication Dynamics: How to Generate Realistic Inter-event Times
Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, Christos Faloutsos, Renato Assunção +2
With the advancement of information systems, means of communications are becoming cheaper, faster and more available. Today, millions of people carrying smart-phones or tablets are…