The social Web is transforming the way information is created and distributed. Authoring tools, e.g., blog publishing services, enable users to quickly and easily publish content,...
In online content voting networks, aggregate user activities (e.g., submitting and rating content) make high-quality content thrive through the unprecedented scale, high dynamics ...
The new social media sites--blogs, wikis, Flickr and Digg, among others--underscore the transformation of the Web to a participatory medium in which users are actively creating, e...
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...
Influence is a complex and subtle force that governs the dynamics of social networks as well as the behaviors of involved users. Understanding influence can benefit various applic...
Lu Liu, Jie Tang, Jiawei Han, Meng Jiang, Shiqiang...