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Title

Modeling and coordinating social interactions in pervasive environments

Author(s)

Kabir, Muhammad Ashad;  Han, Jun;  Colman, Alan

Abstract

The convergence of Internet and mobile devices has radically changed the way people communicate and interact with each other, and demand for applications that are "social" enough to assist their daily interactions. To support such device mediated interactions, the social relationships between actors need to be systematically modeled and represented. In addition, an application facilitating such interactions should be able to deal with the task conflicts that occur when an actor is involved in multiple interactions simultaneously. To address these issues, in this paper we present an approach to modeling and coordinating social interactions with the notion of social context. It supports social interaction modeling from both the domain- and player-centric perspectives. In particular, the player-centric model provides the basis to coordinate multiple interactions in which an actor is involved. We further introduce a fuzzy logic based reasoning technique to infer the overall importance of each interaction, assisting the actor to resolve conflicts and make decisions. Finally, we validate our approach through a prototype implementation and test cases analysis.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies

Source

Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2011), Las Vegas, United States, 27-29 April 2011, pp. 243-252

Publication year

2011

FOR Code(s)

1005 Communications Technologies

Keyword(s)

Coordinations;  Fuzzy inference;  Role based modeling;  Social awareness;  Social context;  Social interaction

Publisher

IEEE Computer Society

ISBN

9780769543819

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICECCS.2011.31

Copyright

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