In this paper, we focus on the challenge that users face in processing messages on the web posted in participatory media settings, such as blogs. It is desirable to recommend to us...
Science requires collaboration. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of coupling current social networking techniques to science gateways to provide a scientific collabor...
Bayes nets are seeing increasing use in expert systems [2, 6], and structural equations models continue to be popular in many branches of the social sciences [1]. Both types of mod...
This paper proposes to utilize algorithms from the probabilistic graphical models domain for Peer-to-Peer rating of data items and for computing “social influence” of nodes i...
: To date, one of the main aims of the World Wide Web has been to provide users with information. In addition to private homepages, large professional information providers, includ...