Abstract. Closeness centrality is an important concept in social network analysis. In a graph representing a social network, closeness centrality measures how close a vertex is to ...
The difficulty of scaling Online Social Networks (OSNs) has introduced new system design challenges that has often caused costly re-architecting for services like Twitter and Face...
Josep M. Pujol, Vijay Erramilli, Georgos Siganos, ...
In this paper we look at how the structure of the social network and the nature of the social interactions can affect the behaviour of particle swarms. To this end, we create and ...
Riccardo Poli, William B. Langdon, Paul Marrow, Ja...
In this paper, we describe the design and development of a social game called Familiars. Inspired by the daemons in Pullman’s “Dark Material” trilogy, Familiars are animal c...
Ben Kirman, Eva Ferrari, Shaun Lawson, Jonathan Fr...
Social networking and collaboration sites are having a large impact on people's personal lives. These same applications, similar functions and related experiences are being a...
Jason Blackwell, John Sheridan, Keith Instone, Dav...