Geography and social relationships are inextricably intertwined; the people we interact with on a daily basis almost always live near us. As people spend more time online, data re...
This paper presents an application of information theory to identify sets of key players in social networks. First, we define two entropy measures that we use to analyze the struct...
Social Network Marketing techniques employ pre-existing social networks to increase brands or products awareness through word-of-mouth promotion. Full understanding of social netw...
Motivation: The functioning of biological networks depends in large part on their complex underlying structure. When studying their systemic nature many modeling approaches focus ...
Online forums represent one type of social media that is particularly rich for studying human behavior in information seeking and diffusing. The way users join communities is a re...