Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) can be fascinating laboratories to observe group dynamics online. In particular, players must form persistent associations or "guil...
Nicolas Ducheneaut, Nicholas Yee, Eric Nickell, Ro...
Many social networks can be characterized by a sequence of dyadic interactions between individuals. Techniques for analyzing such events are of increasing interest. In this paper,...
In the form of topic discussions, users interact with each other to share knowledge and exchange information in online forums. Modeling the evolution of topic discussion reveals h...
Hao Wu, Jiajun Bu, Chun Chen, Can Wang, Guang Qiu,...
—The standard way to scale a distributed OLTP DBMS is to horizontally partition data across several nodes. Ideally, this results in each query/transaction being executed at just ...
Aubrey Tatarowicz, Carlo Curino, Evan P. C. Jones,...
Small-world experiments in which packages reach addressees unknown to the original sender through a forwarding chain confirm that acquaintance networks have short paths, a propert...