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When Whereabouts is No Longer Thereabouts

Julien Freudiger

Modern mobile devices are fast, programmable and feature localization and wireless capabilities. These technological advances notably facilitate mobile access to Internet, development of mobile applications and sharing of personal information, such as loca ...

EPFL2011

Predicting behavior of Twitter Users

Adela Maznikar

Social networks today are great source of data which can be used and analyzed in different ways. In our project the main goal is to predict the behavior of the users, more accurately said: we try to predict what will a particular user tweet in the future, ...

2011

Evaluating the Privacy Risk of Location-Based Services

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Julien Freudiger, Reza Shokri

In modern mobile networks, users increasingly share their location with third-parties in return for location-based services. In this way, users obtain services customized to their location. Yet, such communications leak location information about users. Ev ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2011

Assessing vaccination sentiments with online social media: implications for infectious disease dynamics and control

Marcel Salathé

There is great interest in the dynamics of health behaviors in social networks and how they affect collective public health outcomes, but measuring population health behaviors over time and space requires substantial resources. Here, we use publicly availa ...

Public Library of Science2011

Multi-Graph Regularization For Efficient Delivery Of User Generated Content In Online Social Networks

We present a methodology for enhancing the delivery of user-generated content in online social networks. To this end, we first regularize the social graph via node capacity and link cost information associated with the underlying data network. We then desi ...

2011

A Regularization Framework for Mobile Social Network Analysis

Pascal Frossard, Pierre Vandergheynst, Xiaowen Dong

Mobile phone data provides rich dynamic information on human activities in social network analysis. In this paper, we represent data from two different modalities as a graph and functions defined on the vertex set of the graph. We propose a regularization ...

2011

Are Privacy Fears Associated with Intelligent Transport Systems Justified?

The creation of wide-area, real-time monitoring systems for the road network has the potential to achieve a step change in both our understanding of the evolution of congestion and forecasting/information to minimise its economic consequences. While such c ...

2011

On the Privacy of Anonymized Networks

Matthias Grossglauser, Pedram Pedarsani

The proliferation of online social networks, and the concomitant accumulation of user data, give rise to hotly debated issues of privacy, security, and control. One specific challenge is the sharing or public release of anonymized data without accidentally ...

2011

Epitomize Your Photos

Touradj Ebrahimi, Jong Seok Lee, Ivan Ivanov, Péter Vajda

With the rapid growth of digital photography, sharing of photos with friends and family has become very popular. When people share their photos, they usually organize them in albums according to events or places. To tell the story of some important events ...

2011

Collaborative Location Privacy

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Panagiotis Papadimitratos, Reza Shokri, Georgios Theodorakopoulos

Location-aware smart phones support various location-based services (LBSs): users query the LBS server and learn on the fly about their surroundings. However, such queries give away private information, enabling the LBS to identify and track users. We addr ...

2011