@InProceedings{Palanisamy2020, author = {Anandhakumar Palanisamy and Mirsat Sefidanoski and Spiros Koulouzis and Carlos Rubia and Nishant Saurabh and Radu Prodan}, booktitle = {2020 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)}, title = {{Decentralized Social Media Applications as a Service: a Car-Sharing Perspective}}, year = {2020}, month = {jul}, pages = {1--7}, publisher = {IEEE}, abstract = {Social media applications are essential for next generation connectivity. Today, social media are centralized platforms with a single proprietary organization controlling the network and posing critical trust and governance issues over the created and propagated content. The ARTICONF project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program researches a decentralized social media platform based on a novel set of trustworthy, resilient and globally sustainable tools to fulfil the privacy, robustness and autonomy-related promises that proprietary social media platforms have failed to deliver so far. This paper presents the ARTICONF approach to a car-sharing use case application, as a new collaborative peer-to-peer model providing an alternative solution to private car ownership. We describe a prototype implementation of the car-sharing social media application and illustrate through real snapshots how the different ARTICONF tools support it in a simulated scenario.}, doi = {10.1109/iscc50000.2020.9219617}, keywords = {Social media, car-sharing, decentralization, blockchain}, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9219617} }