TY - JOUR
T1 - Toward Context-Aware Mobile Social Networks
AU - Yu, Zhiyong
AU - Zhang, Daqing
AU - Wang, Zhu
AU - Guo, Bin
AU - Roussaki, Ioanna
AU - Doolin, Kevin
AU - Claffey, Ethel
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (nos. 61772136, 61772428, 61402369, 61373119, 61672159), the Fujian Collaborative Innovation Center for Big Data Application in Governments, and the Technology Innovation Platform Project of Fujian Province (no. 2014H2005).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/10
Y1 - 2017/10
N2 - CA-MSNs are more intelligent and user-friendly than conventional online or mobile social networks. We first classify CA-MSNs into four categories, and divide their life cycle into four phases: Discovery, connection, interaction, and organization. We then introduce personal and community context, and discuss the corresponding taxonomy. Subsequently, we elaborate how such context can be leveraged to enhance each life cycle phase. We also present our practices on designing various CA-MSN applications. Finally, future research directions are identified to shed light on the next generation MSNs from the context awareness perspective.
AB - CA-MSNs are more intelligent and user-friendly than conventional online or mobile social networks. We first classify CA-MSNs into four categories, and divide their life cycle into four phases: Discovery, connection, interaction, and organization. We then introduce personal and community context, and discuss the corresponding taxonomy. Subsequently, we elaborate how such context can be leveraged to enhance each life cycle phase. We also present our practices on designing various CA-MSN applications. Finally, future research directions are identified to shed light on the next generation MSNs from the context awareness perspective.
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U2 - 10.1109/MCOM.2017.1700037
DO - 10.1109/MCOM.2017.1700037
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85036470498
SN - 0163-6804
VL - 55
SP - 168
EP - 175
JO - IEEE Communications Magazine
JF - IEEE Communications Magazine
IS - 10
M1 - 8067705
ER -