This paper presents an application of information theory to identify sets of key players in social networks. First, we define two entropy measures that we use to analyze the struct...
A procedure is described for finding sets of key players in a social network. A key assumption is that the optimal selection of key players depends on what they are needed for. Acc...
Group key agreement (GKA) allows a set of players to establish a shared secret and thus bootstrap secure group communication. GKA is very useful in many types of peer group scenar...
Current computer involvement in adolescent social networks (youth between the ages of 11 and 17) provides new opportunities to study group dynamics, interactions amongst peers, an...
Juan Fernando Mancilla-Caceres, Wen Pu, Eyal Amir,...
—We introduce a novel set of social network analysis based algorithms for mining the Web, blogs, and online forums to identify trends and find the people launching these new tren...
Peter A. Gloor, Jonas Krauss, Stefan Nann, Kai Fis...