Social network analysis became a common technique used to model and quantify the properties of social interactions. In this paper, we propose an integrated framework to explore th...
The processes by which communities come together, attract new members, and develop over time is a central research issue in the social sciences -- political movements, professiona...
Lars Backstrom, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Jon M. Kle...
The authors look at online tip exchanges as parts of gift economies created by the players and designers of console and online role-playing games in Taiwan. A group of experienced...
—The recently proposed Pocket Switched Network paradigm takes advantage of human social contacts to opportunistically create data paths over time. We examine how effective such a...
Energy flows in ecological systems which are determined by the structure of the ecological network influence the evolution of the network itself. The total system energy throughflo...