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Contribution to Book
Smart and Private Social Activity Invitation Framework Based on Historical Data from Smart Devices
MOBIMEDIA 2017: Proceedings of the 10th EAI International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications
  • Weitian Tong, Georgia Southern University
  • Scott Buglass, Georgia Southern University
  • Jeffery Li, Georgia Southern University
  • Lei Chen, Georgia Southern University
  • Chunyu Ai, University of South Carolina Upstate
Document Type
Contribution to Book
Publication Date
12-8-2017
DOI
10.4108/eai.13-7-2017.2270271
ISBN
978-1-63190-156-0
Disciplines
Abstract

Modern social networks bring people together and help facilitate the organization of various group activities. Inspired by the recent work by Ai et al. [2], we design a smart and private social activity invitation framework based on historical data from smart devices. Our paradigm aims at helping users organize group activities in a smart and efficient way while finding compromises to satisfy all involved parties. Compared with Ai et al.’s work [2], our framework is more realistic, whereby users report their personal information to the app server, which is used to provide organizing services to registered members. The app server, however, is untrustworthy and could be motivated by factors such as advertising revenue. Therefore, the app may advertise itself by providing aggregate statistical information about current users to attract new users. This creates a dilemma between the existing users’ concerns about personal privacy and the app developers’ agenda. Our framework ameliorates this conflict by securing existing users’ information under a state-of-the-art privacy concept – differential privacy – guaranteeing quality services to existing users, while also allowing the server to give informative answers to new potential users. In addition, the proposed framework encourages less active or isolated users via a new method based on perturbed graphs. Our simulation results demonstrate that the proposed framework performs well.

Citation Information
Weitian Tong, Scott Buglass, Jeffery Li, Lei Chen, et al.. "Smart and Private Social Activity Invitation Framework Based on Historical Data from Smart Devices" Chongqing, ChinaMOBIMEDIA 2017: Proceedings of the 10th EAI International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications (2017) p. 143 - 152
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/lei-chen/23/