Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.7305/automatika.2016.03.1037
BeFriend: A Context-Aware Ad-hoc Social Networking Platform
Vanja Smailović
orcid.org/0000-0002-9872-2364
; Ericsson Nikola Tesla Krapinska 45, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Vedran Podobnik
orcid.org/0000-0001-7070-9283
; Department of Telecommunications, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Unska 3, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Ad-hoc social networks, focused on managing user social relationships in a novel fashion based on establishment of temporary social connections among users with mutual interests and/or needs, provide an innovative medium for upgrading existing, as well as developing new social relationships. This paper describes the BeFriend, a context-aware ad-hoc social networking platform based on Facebook and Google+ social graphs. The BeFriend platform is for mobile users equipped with a smartphone -- after installing and activating the BeFriend client, they are able to receive push notifications when a certain rule is triggered (e.g. it is Friday evening, Ewan and Luke are drinking beer in a bar and one of their Facebook/Google+ friends passes nearby). Personal agents within the BeFriend platform provide autonomous decision-making in the platform, decrease the need for user input and enable automated social discovery of new community members. The proof of-concept BeFriend platform presented in this paper is available in form of BeFriend application for users possessing Android-based smartphones.
Keywords
Social graph; social discovery; Facebook; Google+; ad-hoc social network; context-awareness; proximity tracking; Belief-Desire-Intention agents; autonomous decision making; multi-agent system
Hrčak ID:
165489
URI
Publication date:
1.9.2016.
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