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Keyword: Smartphone applicationsOpen AccessArticle
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A Practical PIR-based Scheme for Discovering Nearby Places for Smartphone Applications
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We present a privacy-preserving approach for discovering nearby places of interest to Alice. In this approach, the proposed protocol allows Alice to learn whether there is any place that she is looking for near her. However, the location-based service (LBS) that tries to help Alice to find nearby places does not learn Alice’s location. Alice…
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Supporting Better Physical Activity in a Smart City: a Framework for Suggesting and Supervising Walking Paths
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The increase of elderly population creates the need to promote healthy aging, with autonomy and independence, for preserving the functional capacity and quality of life as much as possible. To achieve this goal the recommendations include walking a certain amount of steps daily, given that the exact amount of steps changes with age, lesions, and…
Read More(This article belongs to the SP7 (Special Issue on Advancement in Engineering and Computer Science 2019) & Section Bioinformatics (BIF))