Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2018 ; 2018INFO012.
Smartphones have fundamentally changed how people make choices about the products and services they consume and the way they interact with each other. The spread and extensive usage of mobile applications has led to the rise of Location-based Social Network (LBSN) services like Foursquare, Yelp etc, that aim to aim to provide new and novel places of interest to people based on their interests...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2017 ; 2017INFO014.
With the advent of cloud computing, applications are no longer tied to a single device, but they can be migrated to a high-performance machine located in a distant data center. The key advantage is the enhancement of performance and consequently, the users experience. This activity is commonly referred computational offloading and it has been strenuously investigated in the past years. The...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2017 ; 2017INFO001.
According to recent studies, an enormous rise in location-based mobile services is expected in future. People are interested in getting and acting on the localized information retrieved from their vicinity like local events, shopping offers, local food, etc. These studies also suggested that local businesses intend to maximize the reach of their localized offers/advertisements by pushing them...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2015 ; 2015INFO014.
In recent years we are witnessing a noticeable increment in the usage of new generation smartphones, as well as the growth of mobile application development. Today, there is an app for almost everything we need. We are surrounded by a huge number of proactive applications, which automatically provide relevant information and services when and where we need them. This switch from the previous ...
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