This paper describes methods for collecting user activity data in a peer production educational system, the Instructional Architect (IA), and then takes a social network perspectiv...
— This paper discusses ways of navigating online contact networks - networks of social connections defined under a relational context - on a way that can provide much more meani...
This paper presents a preliminary effort on visualization and analysis of social networks for online marketplaces. We use one of the most popular e-business models, eBay, as a cas...
The existence of on-line social networks that include person specific information creates interesting opportunities for various applications ranging from marketing to community o...
Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari, Raymond Heatherl...
The scale-free network shown in the small world phenomenon indicates that our human society consists of a small number of people who play the role of hubs linked with many nodes (...