The use of contextually aware, pervasive, distributed computing, and sensor networks to bridge the gap between the physical and online worlds is the basis of mobile social networking. This book shows how applications can be built to provide mobile social networking, the research issues that need to be solved to enable this vision, and how mobile social networking can be used to provide computational intelligence that will improve daily life. With contributions from the fields of sociology, computer science, human-computer interaction and design, this book demonstrates how mobile social networks can be inferred from users' physical interactions both with the environment and with others, as well as how users behave around them and how their behavior differs on mobile vs. traditional online social networks.

The use of contextually aware, pervasive, distributed computing, and sensor networks to bridge the gap between the physical and online worlds is the basis of mobile social networking. This book shows how applications can be built to provide mobile social networking, the research issues that need to be solved to enable this vision, and how mobile social networking can be used to provide computational intelligence that will improve daily life. With contributions from the fields of sociology, computer science, human-computer interaction and design, this book demonstrates how mobile social networks can be inferred from users' physical interactions both with the environment and with others, as well as how users behave around them and how their behavior differs on mobile vs. traditional online social networks.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post-workshop proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Mining Ubiquitous and Social Environments, MUSE 2013, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in September 2013, and the 4th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media, MSM 2013, held in Paris, France, in May 2013. The 8 full papers included in the book are revised and significantly extended versions of papers submitted to the workshops. The focus is on collective intelligence in ubiquitous and social environments. Issues tackled include personalization in social streams, recommendations exploiting social and ubiquitous data, and efficient information processing in social systems. Furthermore, this book presents work dealing with the problem of mining patterns from ubiquitous social data, including mobility mining and exploratory methods for ubiquitous data analysis.

This book constitutes the joint thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Modeling Social Media, MSM 2011, held in Boston, MA, USA, in October 2011, and the Second International Workshop on Mining Ubiquitous and Social Environments, MUSE 2011, held in Athens, Greece, in September 2011. The 9 full papers included in the book are revised and significantly extended versions of papers submitted to the workshops. They cover a wide range of topics organized in three main themes: communities and networks in ubiquitous social media; mining approaches; and issues of user modeling, privacy and security.

This book constitutes the joint thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of The Modeling Social Media Workshop, MSM 2010 held in Toronto, Canada in June 2010 and the International Workshop on Mining Ubiquitous and Social Environments, MUSE 2010, held in Barcelona, Spain in September 2010.

The eight revised full papers included were carefully reviewed and selected after two rounds of reviewing and revision. The papers address various aspects of the analysis and engineering of socio-computational systems in which social, ubiquitous and computational processes are interdependent and tightly interwoven

The 7 papers presented in this book are revised and significantly extended versions of papers submitted to three related workshops: 6th International Workshop on Mining Ubiquitous and Social Environments, MUSE 2015, held in Porto, Portugal, September 2015, in conjunction with the 6th European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML-PKDD 2015; 6th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media, MSM 2015, held in Florence, Italy, May 2015, in conjunction with the 24th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2015; 7th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media, MSM 2016, Montreal, QC, Canada, April 2016, in conjunction with the 25th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2016.

The 9 papers presented in this book are revised and significantly extended versions of papers submitted to three related workshops: The 5th International Workshop on Mining Ubiquitous and Social Environments, MUSE 2014, and the First International Workshop on Machine Learning for Urban Sensor Data, SenseML 2014, which were held on September 15, 2014, in conjunction with the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2014) in Nancy, France; and the 5th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM 2014) that was held on April 8, 2014 in conjunction with ACM WWW in Seoul, Korea.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post-proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Mining Ubiquitous and Social Environments, MUSE 2012, held in Bristol, UK, in September 2012, and the Third International Workshop on Modeling Social Media, MSM 2012, held in Milwaukee, WI, USA, in June 2012. The 8 full papers included in the book are revised and significantly extended versions of papers submitted to the workshops. They cover a wide range of topics organized in three main themes: communities and group structure in ubiquitous social media; ubiquitous modeling and aspects of social interactions and influence.