GeoS: A Service for the Management of Geo-Social Information in a Distributed System

Applications and services that take advantage of social data usually infer social relationships using information produced only within their own context, using a greatly simplified representation of users\u27 social data. We propose to combine social information from multiple sources into a directed and weighted social multigraph in order to enable novel socially-aware applications and services. We present GeoS, a geo-social data management service which implements a representative set of social inferences and can run on a decentralized system. We demonstrate GeoS\u27 potential for social applications on a collection of social data that combines collocation information and Facebook friendship declarations from 100 students. We demonstrate its performance by testing it both on PlanetLab and a LAN with a realistic workload for a 1000 node graph