Abstract. We present the data modeling concepts of Tricia, an opensource Java platform used to implement enterprise web information systems as well as social software solutions inc...
—Social and communication networks across the world generate vast amounts of graph-like data each day. The modeling and prediction of how these communication structures evolve ca...
We address the problem of efficiently discovering the influential nodes in a social network under the susceptible/infected/susceptible (SIS) model, a diffusion model where nodes ar...
Bulletin Board Systems (BBS), similar to blogs, newsgroups, online forums, etc., are online broadcasting spaces where people can exchange ideas and make announcements. As BBS are b...
In this paper, we focus on the challenge that users face in processing messages on the web posted in participatory media settings, such as blogs. It is desirable to recommend to us...