Independence is key to a successful transition to adulthood for individuals with autism. Social support is a crucial factor for achieving adaptive self-help life skills. In this p...
Hwajung Hong, Jennifer G. Kim, Gregory D. Abowd, R...
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...
Social Media provide an exciting and novel view into social phenomena. The vast amounts of data that can be gathered from the Internet coupled with massively parallel supercomputer...
William N. Reynolds, Marta S. Weber, Robert M. Far...
A huge amount of administrative effort is required for large wiki systems to produce and maintain high quality pages with existing naive access control policies. This paper introdu...
Haifeng Zhao, Shaozhi Ye, Prantik Bhattacharyya, J...
It is well known that different types of social ties have essentially different influence between people. However, users in online social networks rarely categorize their contact...