Recent innovations have resulted in a plethora of social applications on the Web, such as blogs, social networks, and community photo and video sharing applications. Such applicat...
The potential benefit of integrating contextual information for recommendation has received much research attention recently, especially with the ever-increasing interest in mobil...
Yize Li, Jiazhong Nie, Yi Zhang, Bingqing Wang, Ba...
: In December of 2010, the new game CityVille achieved 6 million daily active users in just 8 days. Clearly the success of CityVille owes something to the fun gameplay experience i...
The aggregation and comparison of behavioral patterns on the WWW represent a tremendous opportunity for understanding past behaviors and predicting future behaviors. In this paper...
Eytan Adar, Daniel S. Weld, Brian N. Bershad, Stev...
—The nature of the Blogosphere determines that the majority of bloggers are only connected with a small number of fellow bloggers, and similar bloggers can be largely disconnecte...
Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu, Shankara B. Subramanya, J...