Users using the same video streaming service within a wireless network share the same limited backbone bandwidth to the Internet. These users are motivated to collaborate with eac...
Abstract. The definition of a community in social networks varies with applications. To generalize different types of communities, the concept of linkpattern based community was pr...
Word-of-mouth communication has been shown to play a key role in a variety of environments such as viral marketing and virus spreading. A family of algorithms, generally known as ...
In this paper we examine the diffusion of competing rumors in social networks. Two players select a disjoint subset of nodes as initiators of the rumor propagation, seeking to maxi...
The social Web is transforming the way information is created and distributed. Authoring tools, e.g., blog publishing services, enable users to quickly and easily publish content,...