Abstract— The convergence of the wireline telecom, wireless telecom, and internet networks and the services they provide offers tremendous opportunities in services personalizati...
Robert Dinoff, Tin Kam Ho, Richard Hull, Bharat Ku...
People come to online communities seeking information, encouragement, and conversation. When a community responds, participants benefit and become more committed. Yet interactions...
Jaime Arguello, Brian S. Butler, Elisabeth Joyce, ...
In this paper, we analyze the role of the social group in a Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) environment as a source of contextual information. A model is presented to address the s...
Events and stories can be characterized by a set of descriptive, collocated keywords. Intuitively, documents describing the same event will contain similar sets of keywords, and t...
Social network analysis has attracted increasing attention in recent years. In many social networks, besides friendship links amongst users, the phenomenon of users associating th...