Emerging economic P2P applications share the common need for an efficient, secure payment mechanism. In this paper, we present PPay, a micropayment system that exploits unique cha...
Scale free graphs have attracted attention as their non-uniform structure that can be used as a model for many social networks including the WWW and the Internet. In this paper, w...
We investigate the breaking of ties between individuals in the online social network of Twitter, a hugely popular social media service. Building on sociology concepts such as stre...
In this study, we analyzed the language use on Twitter personal exchanges as well as properties of the users’ networks, to study the influence of gender composition on expressio...
Funda Kivran-Swaine, Samuel Brody, Nicholas Diakop...
We present a deterministic model for on-line social networks based on transitivity and local knowledge in social interactions. In the Iterated Local Transitivity (ILT) model, at ea...
Anthony Bonato, Noor Hadi, Paul Horn, Pawel Pralat...