Online spaces that enable public shared inter-personal communications are of significant social and economic importance. This paper outlines a theoretical model and methodology, la...
Incremental pattern discovery targets streaming applications where the data continuously arrive incrementally. The questions are how to find patterns (main trends) incrementally; ...
Online forums represent one type of social media that is particularly rich for studying human behavior in information seeking and diffusing. The way users join communities is a re...
—Online advertising is a rapidly growing industry currently dominated by the search engine ’giant’ Google. In an attempt to tap into this huge market, Internet Service Provid...
This paper provides a unique quantitative analysis of the social dynamics of three chat rooms in the Microsoft VChat graphical chat system. Survey and behavioral data were used to...