Purchasing decisions are often strongly influenced by people who the consumer knows and trusts. Moreover, many online shoppers tend to wait for the opinions of early adopters befo...
Online social media are complementing and in some cases replacing person-to-person social interaction and redefining the diffusion of information. In particular, microblogs have ...
Jacob Ratkiewicz, Michael Conover, Mark Meiss, Bru...
Abstract—Online social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, and Orkut store large amounts of sensitive user data. While a user can legitimately assume that a social network provid...
Manuel Egele, Andreas Moser, Christopher Kruegel, ...
Mining sentiment from user generated content is a very important task in Natural Language Processing. An example of such content is threaded discussions which act as a very import...
Despite the growing popularity of Online Social Networks (OSNs), the workload characteristics of OSN servers, such as those hosting blog services, are not well understood. Understa...
Myeongjae Jeon, Jeaho Hwang, Youngjae Kim, Jae-Wan...