SocioPlatform: A Platform for Social Context-Aware Applications [chapter]

Muhammad Ashad Kabir, Alan Colman, Jun Han
2014 Context in Computing  
With an explosive growth in the popularity of social media and increasing prevelance and features of advanced mobile devices, interest has grown significantly in applications that are aware of users' social context and are able to assist them in their daily activities. A key requirement of developing social context-aware applications is the platform support to reduce the complexity of engineering such applications. In this chapter, we present such a platform, namely SocioPlatform, to aid the
more » ... elopment of social context-aware applications by acquiring, reasoning, storing and provisioning different types of social context information, and managing their runtime interactions and adaptation. The platform hides the complexity of managing social context, and thus assists the development of social context-aware applications. We demonstrate the feasibility and applicability of the platform by developing two different types of such applications.
doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-1887-4_19 fatcat:6elxaildajekbht5yon3bqbffi