Distributed mechanisms that regulate the behavior of autonomous agents in open multi-agent systems (MAS) are of high interest since we cannot employ centralized approaches relying...
Weblogs (blogs) serve as a gateway to a large blog reader population, so blog authors can potentially influence a large reader population by expressing their thoughts and expertise...
Online social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, and Flickr have become a popular way to share and disseminate content. Their massive popularity has led to viral marketing t...
We argue that users in social networks are strategic in how they post and propagate information. We propose two models — greedy and courteous — and study information propagatio...
Mangesh Gupte, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Lu Han, L...
In the blog world, bloggers produce information, establish relationships with other bloggers in order to exchange information, and form a blog network, an online social network. I...