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Title

SCIMS: a social context information management system for socially-aware applications

Author(s)

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

Abstract

Social Context Information has been used with encouraging results in developing socially-aware applications in different domains. However, users' social information is distributed over the web and managed by many different proprietary applications, which is a challenge for application developers as they must collect information from different sources and wade through a lot of irrelevant information to obtain the social context information of interest. Combining the social information from the diverse sources and incorporating richer semantics could greatly assist the developers and enrich the applications. In this paper, we introduce SCIMS, a social context information management system. It includes the ability to acquire raw social data from multiple sources; an ontology based model for classifying, inferring and storing social context information, in particular, social relationships and status; an ontology based policy model and language for owners to control access to their information; a query interface for accessing and utilizing social context information. We evaluate the performance and scalability of SCIMS using real data from Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google calendar, and demonstrate its applicability through a socially-aware phone call application.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies

Source

Lecture notes in computer science: proceedings of 'Information Services', the 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2012), Gdansk, Poland, 25-29 June 2012 / Jolita Ralyte, Xavier Franch, Sjaak Brinkkemper and Stanislaw Wrycza (eds.), Vol. 7328, pp. 301-317

Publication year

2012

FOR Code(s)

08 Information and Computing Science

Keyword(s)

Access control;  Information acquisition;  Information management;  Online Social Networks;  Ontologies;  Social context;  Social relationship

Publisher

Springer

ISSN

0302-9743 (series ISSN)

ISBN

9783642310942, 364231094X

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31095-9_20

Copyright

Copyright © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012. The accepted manuscript of the paper is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. The definitive version is available at www.springer.com.

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