Large scale real-world network data such as social and information networks are ubiquitous. The study of such social and information networks seeks to find patterns and explain th...
Social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook thrive on energetic social interaction, but the factors that assure this are not well understood. There is a lack of theory th...
Catherine Dwyer, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, George Widme...
Social network services have become a viable source of information for users. In Twitter, information deemed important by the community propagates through retweets. Studying the c...
Software fails and fixing it is expensive. Research in failure prediction has been highly successful at modeling software failures. Few models, however, consider the key cause of ...
Andrew Meneely, Laurie Williams, Will Snipes, Jaso...
We pose a fundamental question in understanding how to identify and design successful communities: What factors predict whether a community will grow and survive in the long term?...