Huge amounts of unstructured data including image, video, audio, and text are ubiquitously
generated and shared, and it is a challenge to protect sensitive personal information in …

Location-based services (LBSs) provide enhanced functionality and convenience of
ubiquitous computing, but they open up new vulnerabilities that can be utilized to violate the …

The goal of privacy metrics is to measure the degree of privacy enjoyed by users in a system
and the amount of protection offered by privacy-enhancing technologies. In this way, privacy …

Many modern cities strive to integrate information technology into every aspect of city life to
create so-called smart cities. Smart cities rely on a large number of application areas and …

The widespread adoption of continuously connected smartphones and tablets developed
the usage of mobile applications, among which many use location to provide geolocated …

Directional distribution analysis has long served as a fundamental functionality in
abstracting dispersion and orientation of spatial datasets. Spatial datasets that describe …

Location-based service (LBS) has been widely used in various fields of industry, and
become a vital part of people's daily life. However, while providing great convenience for …

The Internet of Things (IoT) becomes a novel paradigm as more and more devices are
connected to the Internet, enabling several innovative applications such as smart home …

This article provides a comprehensive overview of artificial intelligence (AI) for serious
games. Reporting about the work of a European flagship project on serious game …

Personalized information retrieval is an effective tool to solve the problem of information
overload. Along with the rapid development of emerging network technologies such as …