We have friends we consider very close and acquaintances we barely know. The social sciences use the term tie strength to denote this differential closeness with the people in our...
Social networks are popular for online communities. This paper evaluates the risk of sophisticated context-aware spam that could result from information sharing on social networks...
—Large graphs are used in many applications, such as social networking. The management of these graphs poses new challenges because such graphs are too large to fit on a single ...
We present TrustDavis, an online reputation system that provides insurance against trade fraud by leveraging existing relationships between players, such as the ones present in so...
The processes by which communities come together, attract new members, and develop over time is a central research issue in the social sciences -- political movements, professiona...
Lars Backstrom, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Jon M. Kle...