We introduce a general stochastic model for the spread of rumours, and derive mean-field equations that describe the dynamics of the model on complex social networks (in particula...
Maziar Nekovee, Yamir Moreno, G. Bianconi, M. Mars...
The phenomenal success of social networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, has revolutionized the way people communicate. This paradigm has attracted the attention ...
Zhijun Yin, Manish Gupta, Tim Weninger, Jiawei Han
Email is one of the most prevalent communication tools today, and solving the email overload problem is pressingly urgent. A good way to alleviate email overload is to automatical...
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...
The analysis of the leading social video sharing platform YouTube reveals a high amount of redundancy, in the form of videos with overlapping or duplicated content. In this paper,...