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This paper proposes a cloud-based solution to social-aware Ambient Intelligence. The proposal uses the common space of the cloud to gather evidence of social ties among users, turning the social cloud into a bridge between smart spaces that adapt themselves according to, not only the situational information in the physical space, but also to the social sphere of the user. As case instance of the approach, we detail the estimation of social ties from the interaction activity of Facebook users.
Work funded by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Gobierno de España) research project TIN2010-20797 (partly financed with FEDER funds), and by the Consellería de Educación e Ordenación Universitaria (Xunta de Galicia) incentives file CN 2011/023 (partly financed with FEDER funds).
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Rodríguez, S.S., Vilas, A.F., Redondo, R.P.D., Arias, J.J.P. (2012). Inferring Ties for Social-Aware Ambient Intelligence: The Facebook Case. In: Novais, P., Hallenborg, K., Tapia, D., Rodríguez, J. (eds) Ambient Intelligence - Software and Applications. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 153. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28783-1_10
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