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An open design privacy-enhancing platform supporting location-based applications

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Tran Khanh Dang,

Trong Nhan Phan,

Nguyen Nhat Minh NgoAuthors Info & Claims

ICUIMC '12: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication

Article No.: 59, Pages 1 - 10

https://doi.org/10.1145/2184751.2184824

Published: 20 February 2012 Publication History

Abstract

The world of location-based services (LBS) has been becoming more diversifying and amazing with its rapid growth in recent years. Moreover, the development has spread to many aspects in all walks of life and got powerful promotion from advanced information and communication technologies. Its pervasive moves, however, leave great concerns behind, which can cause roadblocks in the path of its prosperity. Three of them, identified as heterogeneity, user privacy, and context-awareness, have called for much attention and investigation in both research and industry community world-wide. In response to the call, we propose an elastic and open design platform named OpenLS Privacy-aware Middleware (OPM) for location-based applications as a unified solution to these issues.

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Ngo CDang T(2013)On efficient processing of complicated cloaked region for location privacy aware nearest-neighbor queriesProceedings of the 2013 international conference on Information and Communication Technology10.1007/978-3-642-36818-9_11(101-110)Online publication date: 25-Mar-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-36818-9_11

Index Terms

An open design privacy-enhancing platform supporting location-based applications
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Visualization
    1. Visualization application domains
      1. Geographic visualization
2. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Spatial-temporal systems

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Ngo CDang T(2013)On efficient processing of complicated cloaked region for location privacy aware nearest-neighbor queriesProceedings of the 2013 international conference on Information and Communication Technology10.1007/978-3-642-36818-9_11(101-110)Online publication date: 25-Mar-2013
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