Abstract. Social conventions are useful self-sustaining protocols for groups to coordinate behavior without a centralized entity enforcing coordination. The emergence of such conve...
Abstract. In this paper, we propose the integration of services into social networks (SOAF - Service of a Friend) to leverage the creation of the Internet of Services vision. We sh...
Martin Treiber, Hong Linh Truong, Schahram Dustdar
In this paper we present the first framework that allows the creation of Secret Interest Groups (SIGs) in Online Social Networks; SIGs are self managed groups formed outside of t...
Social network popularity continues to rise as they broaden out to more users. Hidden away within these social networks is a valuable set of data that outlines everyone’s relatio...
Thomas Tran, Kelcey Chan, Shaozhi Ye, Prantik Bhat...
Distributed simulation enables participants situated in different geographical locations to share a common virtual world, which is called a Distributed Virtual Environment (DVE). ...