Subgraph matching is a key operation on graph data. Social network (SN) providers may want to find all subgraphs within their social network that "match" certain query gr...
We discuss the use of social networks in implementing viral marketing strategies. While influence maximization has been studied in this context (see Chapter 24 of [10]), we study ...
Jason D. Hartline, Vahab S. Mirrokni, Mukund Sunda...
—Small talk is an important social lubricant that helps people, especially strangers, initiate conversations and make friends with each other in physical proximity. However, due ...
Zhimin Yang, Boying Zhang, Jiangpeng Dai, Adam C. ...
In recent years, social networking sites (SNSs) gained high popularity among Internet users as they combine the best of both worlds: befriending people outside real life situation...
This paper describes an interactive social agent platform which examines anthropomorphic robot features in the mobile phone usage context. Our system is smart phone based robot age...