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WSDM
2010
ACM
227views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
Folks in folksonomies: Social link prediction from shared metadata
Web 2.0 applications have attracted a considerable amount of attention because their open-ended nature allows users to create lightweight semantic scaffolding to organize and shar...
Rossano Schifanella, Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto, B...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Do all birds tweet the same?: characterizing twitter around the world
Social media services have spread throughout the world in just a few years. They have become not only a new source of information, but also new mechanisms for societies world-wide...
Barbara Poblete, Ruth Garcia, Marcelo Mendoza, Ale...
PETRA
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Towards a social fabric for pervasive assistive environments
The digital divide refers to a lack of technological access, part of which involves exclusion from a blooming arena of social interaction. People without mobile phones or PCs cann...
Clare Owens, David E. Millard, Andrew Stanford-Cla...
WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
An Improved Method for GPS-Based Network Position Location in Forests
—In this paper we present a technique for improving the location performance based on the Global Positioning System (GPS) for networks of nodes in harsh environments and demonstr...
Christopher L. Hutchens, Brian R. Sarbin, Alyse C....
SIGCOMM
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
Predicting location using mobile phone calls
Location prediction using mobile phone traces has attracted increasing attention. Owing to the irregular user mobility patterns, it still remains challenging to predict user locat...
Daqiang Zhang, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Haoyi Xion...