This paper aims to quantify two common assumptions about social tagging: (1) that tags are “meaningful” and (2) that the tagging process is influenced by tag suggestions. For...
Fabian M. Suchanek, Milan Vojnovic, Dinan Gunaward...
Previous work analyzing social networks has mainly focused on binary friendship relations. However, in online social networks the low cost of link formation can lead to networks w...
— We examine the social behaviors of game experts in Everquest II, a popular massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMO). We rely on Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGM)...
David Huffaker, Jing (Annie) Wang, Jeffrey William...
Abstract. Social interactions are one of the key factors to the success of conferences and similar community gatherings. This paper describes a novel application that integrates da...
Harith Alani, Martin Szomszor, Ciro Cattuto, Woute...
Search engine researchers typically depict search as the solitary activity of an individual searcher. In contrast, results from our critical-incident survey of 150 users on Amazon...