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Quantifying Location Privacy: The Case of Sporadic Location Exposure

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Reza Shokri, Georgios Theodorakopoulos

Mobile users expose their location to potentially untrusted entities by using location-based services. Based on the frequency of location exposure in these applications, we divide them into two main types: Continuous and Sporadic. These two location exposu ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2011

A knowledge infrastructure for intelligent query answering in location-based services

Stefano Spaccapietra, Shijun Yu

Intelligent query answering in Location-based Services refers to their capability to provide mobile users with personalized and contextualized answers. Personalization is expected to lead to answers that better match user's interests, as inferable from the ...

2010

The effects of mutual location-awareness on group coordination

Pierre Dillenbourg, Nicolas Nova

The importance of space and place in collaborative practices has been strengthened with the ubiquitous computing paradigm, which aims at the integration of computation in physical objects and places. New location-based applications allow users to know wher ...

2010

Private Sharing of User Location over Online Social Networks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Julien Freudiger, Raoul Neu

Online social networks increasingly allow mobile users to share their location with their friends. Much to the detriment of users’ privacy, this also means that social network operators collect users’ lo- cation. Similarly, third parties can learn users’ l ...

2010

Location Privacy amidst Local Eavesdroppers

Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert

Mobile social networks and location-aware applications are becoming more and more widespread in current wireless networks. Thanks to WiFi or Bluetooth-enabled devices, everyday mobile users can enjoy new services. However, the deployment of these mobile te ...

2009

A Descriptive Framework to Design for Mutual Location-Awareness in Ubiquitous Computing

Pierre Dillenbourg, Nicolas Nova

The following paper provides developers, designers and researchers of location-aware applications with a descriptive framework of applications that convey Mutual Location-Awareness. These applications rely on ubiquitous computing systems to inform people o ...

2008

Access control and privacy in location-aware applications

Maria Luisa Damiani

The topic addressed in this thesis concerns the relationship between spatial knowledge and information protection in a mobile setting. The proliferation of mobile devices in an increasingly connected world raises growing concern for information security an ...

EPFL2008

The way ahead for London's bus priority at traffic signals

London has a long history of successful schemes for bus priority at traffic signals. Recently, Transport for London (TfL) has procured a modern automatic vehicle location (AVL) system for bus fleet management, passenger information and bus priority. The ne ...

Institution of Engineering and Technology2008

The influences of location awareness on computer-supported collaboration

Nicolas Nova

"Where are you?". This recurring question when opening a mobile conversation attests the importance of spatialisation in social interactions. More and more applications support mutual location-awareness: they enable members of a group to locate their partn ...

EPFL2007

GEO-RBAC: A spatially aware RBAC

Maria Luisa Damiani

Securing access to data in location- based services and mobile applications requires the definition of spatially aware access- control systems. Even if some approaches have already been proposed either in the context of geographic database systems or conte ...

2007