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Exploiting Repeated Mobility Patterns in Future Wireless Networks
This event took place on Wednesday 12 November 2008 at 11:00

 
Fawad Nazir

The work is funded by Ericsson Sweden under the project : CAMP (Context Aware Mobility Project) This talk will discuss two research questions:

1. How to exploit people’s social encounters to improve the content delivery performance and lower end-to-end delay in delay tolerant networks?

2. How can predicting mobility patterns help lower service costs? and

Ask: 1. How can we KMI researchers help in doing such a research?

 
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Social Software is...


Social Software
Social Software can be thought of as "software which extends, or derives added value from, human social behaviour - message boards, musical taste-sharing, photo-sharing, instant messaging, mailing lists, social networking."

Interacting with other people not only forms the core of human social and psychological experience, but also lies at the centre of what makes the internet such a rich, powerful and exciting collection of knowledge media. We are especially interested in what happens when such interactions take place on a very large scale -- not only because we work regularly with tens of thousands of distance learners at the Open University, but also because it is evident that being part of a crowd in real life possesses a certain 'buzz' of its own, and poses a natural challenge. Different nuances emerge in different user contexts, so we choose to investigate the contexts of work, learning and play to better understand the trade-offs involved in designing effective large-scale social software for multiple purposes.