TY - GEN
T1 - Towards location-based social networking services
AU - Chow, Chi Yin
AU - Bao, Jie
AU - Mokbel, Mohamed F.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Social networking applications have become very important web services that provide Internet-based platforms for their users to interact with their friends. With the advances in the location-aware hardware and software technologies, location-based social networking applications have been proposed to provide services for their users, taking into account both the spatial and social aspects. Unfortunately, none of existing location-based social networking applications is a holistic system nor equips database management systems to support scalable location-based social networking services. In this paper, we present GeoSocialDB; a holistic system providing three location-based social networking services, namely, location-based news feed, location-based news ranking, and location-based recommendation. In GeoSocialDB, we aim to implement these services as query operators inside a database engine to optimize the query processing performance. Within the GeoSocialDB framework, we discuss research challenges and directions towards the realization of scalable and practical query processing for location-based social networking services. In general, we discuss the challenges in designing location-and/or rank-aware query operators, materializing query answers, supporting continuous query processing, and providing privacy-aware query processing for our three location-based social networking services
AB - Social networking applications have become very important web services that provide Internet-based platforms for their users to interact with their friends. With the advances in the location-aware hardware and software technologies, location-based social networking applications have been proposed to provide services for their users, taking into account both the spatial and social aspects. Unfortunately, none of existing location-based social networking applications is a holistic system nor equips database management systems to support scalable location-based social networking services. In this paper, we present GeoSocialDB; a holistic system providing three location-based social networking services, namely, location-based news feed, location-based news ranking, and location-based recommendation. In GeoSocialDB, we aim to implement these services as query operators inside a database engine to optimize the query processing performance. Within the GeoSocialDB framework, we discuss research challenges and directions towards the realization of scalable and practical query processing for location-based social networking services. In general, we discuss the challenges in designing location-and/or rank-aware query operators, materializing query answers, supporting continuous query processing, and providing privacy-aware query processing for our three location-based social networking services
KW - Architecture
KW - Design
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U2 - 10.1145/1867699.1867706
DO - 10.1145/1867699.1867706
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78650872701
SN - 9781450304344
T3 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location Based Social Networks, LBSN 2010 - Held in Conjunction with ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010
SP - 31
EP - 38
BT - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location Based Social Networks, LBSN 2010 - Held in Conjunction with ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010
T2 - 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location Based Social Networks, LBSN 2010 - Held in Conjunction with ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010
Y2 - 2 November 2010 through 2 November 2010
ER -