Pervasive Social Computing: Socially-Aware Pervasive Systems and Mobile Applications

297 Pages·2016·6.317 MB·English

by  Muhammad Ashad Kabir, Jun Han, Alan Colman (auth.)

Muhammad Ashad Kabir · Jun Han
Alan Colman
Pervasive
Social
Computing
Socially-Aware Pervasive Systems and
Mobile Applications
Pervasive Social Computing

Muhammad Ashad Kabir • Jun Han
Alan Colman
Pervasive Social Computing
Socially-Aware Pervasive Systems
and Mobile Applications
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MuhammadAshadKabir JunHan
SchoolofComputingandMathematics SchoolofSoftwareandElectrical
CharlesSturtUniversity Engineering
Bathurst,NSW,Australia SwinburneUniversityofTechnology
Melbourne,VIC,Australia
AlanColman
SchoolofSoftwareandElectrical
Engineering
SwinburneUniversityofTechnology
Melbourne,VIC,Australia
ISBN978-3-319-29949-5 ISBN978-3-319-29951-8 (eBook)
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Preface
Pervasive computing envisions “smart” places where people are assisted
in their daily life by various technologies that move to the background,
being invisible yet significantly helpful. To provide such technologies a
rapidly growing research area called context-awareness has emerged, to
make pervasive applications more intelligent and accessible. Humans,
the centre of pervasive computing, however, are social beings. Hence, the
notion of social context-awareness can advance the field further in achieving
the vision of pervasive computing. As such, recently a vibrant research
directionisintroduced,entitledPervasiveSocialComputing,whichisanovel
collectiveparadigmderivedfrompervasivecomputing,socialmedia,social
networking, social signal processing and multi-modal human-computer
interaction. It aims to take advantage of human social context to enable the
fulfilmentofusertasksonthemove,ultimatelypromotingindividualwell
being and social productivity. With the increasing prevalence and features
of advanced mobile devices, interest has grown in socially aware mobile
applications, where the applications will be aware of users’ social context
andbeabletoassistthemintheirdailyactivities.
Developing socially aware applications is challenging. First, the so-
ciallyawareapplicationsneeddifferenttypesofsocialcontextinformation
suchassocialroles,socialrelationships,socialinteractionsandsituations.These
differenttypesofsocialcontextinformationneedtobemodelled,represented
and acquired from various sources for use by the applications. Second,
an application may need social context information that is not directly
available from context sources but can be inferred from the acquired basic
information. Thus, there is the need to define and obtain inferred social
context information from the acquired basic information. Third, the users’
social context information is inherently sensitive and can be used to infer
further information. The users should be allowed to specify their privacy
preferences regarding access to their information. Fourth, much of the
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users’socialcontextinformationisdynamicandcontinuouslychanges.The
socially aware applications need to support adaptation to cope with the
changesinsocialcontextinformation.
This book introduces a novel framework to address the aforementioned
challenges in developing socially aware applications. The framework in-
cludes an approach to model, represent, reason about and manage different
types of social context, and a platform for acquiring, storing, provisioning
and managing social context information to aid the development and
operation of socially aware applications. This book reports several im-
portant research contributions. Firstly, the proposed framework provides
an ontology-based social context model, including an upper social context
ontology which can be customised and specialised to form domain-specific
ontologies.Secondly,theframeworkprovidesanontology-basedapproach
todefinerulesforderivingandabstractingsocialcontextinformation.Italso
proposes an approach to inferring user situations by correlating historical
interaction events. Thirdly, the framework provides an ontology-based
socially aware access control policy model and language for owners to control
access to their information at different levels of granularity. Fourthly, the
frameworkalsoprovidesawaytomodelandrepresentruntimesocialinter-
actions from both the domain- and player perspectives to support mediated
social interactions and manage their adaptation to cope with the changes
inuserrequirementsandenvironments.Finally,theframeworkprovidesa
platformforacquiring,storingandprovisioning socialcontextinformation,
executing social interaction models and managing their runtime adapta-
tion.Thisbookalsopresentstwocasestudiesthatvalidateandevaluatethe
differentfunctionalitiesoftheframeworkanditsunderlyingapproachand
platform.
Bathurst,NSW,Australia MuhammadAshadKabir
Melbourne,VIC,Australia JunHan
Melbourne,VIC,Australia AlanColman
November2015
About the Authors
Ashad Kabir is a Lecturer in Computing at Charles Sturt University,
Bathurst, Australia. He is also an Adjunct Research Fellow in the Centre
forComputingandEngineeringSoftwareSystemsatSwinburneUniversity
of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Prior to joining Charles Sturt, Dr
Kabir taught at Deakin University (Melbourne, Australia). He received
his PhD degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from
SwinburneUniversityofTechnologyin2013.Hisresearchinterestsinclude
context-aware adaptive systems, social context awareness, data/software
behaviourmining,smartmobileapplicationsandsensing.
Jun Han received his PhD degree in Computer Science from the Uni-
versityofQueensland(Brisbane,Australia)in1992.Since2003,hehasbeen
Professor of Software Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology
(Melbourne, Australia). His primary research focus has been the archi-
tecture and qualities of software systems. His current research interests
include dynamic software architectures, context-aware software systems,
Cloudandservice-orientedsoftwaresystems,softwarearchitecturedesign,
and software performance and security. He has published over 200 peer-
reviewedarticlesininternationaljournalsandconferences.
Alan Colman received his PhD degree in Computer Science and Soft-
ware Engineering from Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne,
Australia) in 2006. Since 2006, he has been a Researcher and Senior Lec-
turer of software engineering at Swinburne University of Technology.
His primary research focus has been adaptive service-oriented software
systems,context-awaresoftwaresystems,softwareandCloudperformance
prediction and control. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles in
internationaljournalsandconferences.
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Contents
ListofFigures..................................................... xv
ListofTables...................................................... xxi
PartI Preliminaries
1 Introduction .................................................. 3
1.1 PervasiveSocialComputing ............................... 3
1.2 DefiningSocialContext ................................... 5
1.3 ResearchChallenges ...................................... 7
1.3.1 Consistent Representation of Social Context
Information........................................ 8
1.3.2 Reasoning About Meaningful Social Context
Information........................................ 9
1.3.3 ManagingAccessControlandAdaptation............ 9
1.4 ApproachOverview ...................................... 10
1.4.1 SocialContextModelling ........................... 11
1.4.2 SocialContextReasoning ........................... 11
1.4.3 SocialContextManagement......................... 12
1.5 StatementandContributions .............................. 12
1.6 BookStructure............................................ 13
2 ApplicationScenarios ......................................... 17
2.1 AData-CentricSocially-AwareApplicationScenario......... 18
2.1.1 ThePhoneCallInterruptions........................ 18
2.1.2 RequirementsAnalysis ............................. 19
2.2 AnInteraction-CentricSocially-AwareApplicationScenario.. 20
2.2.1 TheCooperativeConvoy............................ 20
2.2.2 RequirementsAnalysis ............................. 22
2.3 RequirementsforDevelopingSocially-AwareApplications... 23
2.4 Summary ................................................ 25
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