Intelligent search in social communities of smartphone users

Konstantinidis, Andreas, Zeinalipour-Yazti, Demetrios, Andreou, Panayiotis orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-6369-1094, Samaras, George and Chrysanthis, Panos K (2012) Intelligent search in social communities of smartphone users. Distributed and Parallel Databases, 31 (2). pp. 115-149. ISSN 0926-8782

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Abstract

Social communities of smartphone users have recently gained significant interest due to their wide social penetration. The applications in this domain,however, currently rely on centralized or cloud-like architectures for data sharing and searching tasks, introducing both data-disclosure and performance concerns. In this paper, we present a distributed search architecture for intelligent search of objects in a mobile social community. Our framework, coined SmartOpt, is founded on an in-situ data storage model, where captured objects remain local on smartphones and searches then take place over an intelligent multi-objective lookup structure we compute dynamically. Our MO-QRT structure optimizes several conflicting objectives, using a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm that calculates a diverse set of high quality non-dominated solutions in a single run.
Then a decision-making subsystem is utilized to tune the retrieval preferences of the query user. We assess our ideas both using trace-driven experiments with mobility and social patterns derived by Microsoft’s GeoLife project, DBLP and Pics
‘n’ Trails but also using our real Android SmartP2P3 system deployed over our SmartLab4 testbed of 40+ smartphones. Our study reveals that SmartOpt yields high query recall rates of 95%, with one order of magnitude less time and two
orders of magnitude less energy than its competitors.


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