This study of the flow of online discussions examined how earlier messages affected later messages along five dimensions: (1) evaluations (agree, disagree, or unresponsive actions...
This paper aims at discovering community structure in rich media social networks, through analysis of time-varying, multi-relational data. Community structure represents the laten...
Yu-Ru Lin, Jimeng Sun, Paul Castro, Ravi B. Konuru...
The goal of an autonomic system is to self-manage itself and adjust its actions in the face of environmental changes. In this paper, we adopt a multiagent approach to developing a...
Social laws have proved to be a powerful and theoretically elegant framework for coordination in multi-agent systems. Most existing models of social laws assume that a designer is...
In the immediate aftermath of a disaster routine processes, even if specifically designed for such a situation, are not enacted blindly. Actions and processes rather adapt their be...