In recent years, microblogs have become an important source for reporting real-world
events. A real-world occurrence reported in microblogs is also called a social event. Social …

What is happening around the world? When and where? Mining the geo-tagged Twitter
stream makes it possible to answer the above questions in real-time. Although a single tweet …

Microblogs data is the microlength user-generated data that is posted on the web, eg,
tweets, online reviews, comments on news and social media. It has gained considerable …

Internet of Things (IoT) has become an emerging trend in the information and engineering
industries, which is inevitable to impact our lives in various ways. The advancement of IoT as …

This paper presents Taghreed; a full-fledged system for efficient and scalable querying,
analyzing, and visualizing geotagged microblogs, eg, tweets. Taghreed supports arbitrary …

This paper presents Mercury; a system for real-time support of top-k spatio-temporal queries
on microblogs, where users are able to browse recent microblogs near their locations. With …

Taming data will always be a significant challenge in online social networks. These
networks are rapidly becoming the emerging source for users to explore the primary sources …

Social network platforms and location-based services are increasingly popular in people's
daily lives. The combination of them results in location-based social media where people …

The largely distributed nature and growing demand for open source Cloud makes the
infrastructure an ideal target for malicious attacks that grants unauthorized access to its data …

Indexing microblogs for real-time search is challenging given the efficiency issue caused by
the tremendous speed at which new microblogs are created by users. Existing approaches …