Thursday, April 12, 2012

Exploiting Social Interactions in Mobile Systems

This paper talked about if it would be possible to collect data using a mobile device to distinguish certain people as friends while certain people as strangers. It also attempted to model the basic actions and patterns taken by people that have been categorized. Lastly the paper also tested a anti virus system that would utilize the categorization system to monitor potential threats to the mobile device. This was tested by putting in a worm and seeing if the anti virus software was effective in mitigating the spread of the virus among mobile phones.

The paper itself showed that it was possible to collect data to distinguish certain people and friends while others as strangers with a high percentage. The categorization was only kept to two categories due to the fact that it would get too complicated/not enough time. By using the basic pattern acquired the anti virus software was also able to do a great job in strongly mitigating the spread of a worm virus as well

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