Building on the popularity of online social networks (OSNs) such as Facebook, social content-sharing applications allow users to form communities around shared interests. Millions...
Krishna P. N. Puttaswamy, Alessandra Sala, Ben Y. ...
PageRank-style authority analyses of Web graphs are of great importance for Web mining. Such authority analyses also apply to hot “Web 2.0” applications that exhibit a natural...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Matthia...
This paper intends to provide some insights of a scientific problem: how likely one’s interests can be inferred from his/her social connections – friends, friends’ friends,...
We present an incentive-based architecture for providing recommendations in a social network. We maintain a distinct reputation system for each individual and we rely on users to ...
Rajat Bhattacharjee, Ashish Goel, Konstantinos Kol...
The prevalence of cigarette smoking in the United States has declined very slowly over the last four decades, despite much effort by multiple governmental and non-governmental ins...
Gaurav Tuli, Madhav V. Marathe, S. S. Ravi, Samart...