—Social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Xing have been reporting exponential growth rates. These sites have millions of registered users, and they are interestin...
Gilbert Wondracek, Thorsten Holz, Engin Kirda, Chr...
Abstract. In recent years, the World Wide Web (WWW) has transformed to a gigantic social network where people interact and collaborate in diverse online communities. By using Web 2...
We propose a novel method, based on concepts from expander graphs, to sample communities in networks. We show that our sampling method, unlike previous techniques, produces subgra...
Retweeting is the key mechanism for information diffusion in Twitter. It emerged as a simple yet powerful way of disseminating information in the Twitter social network. Even thoug...
Bongwon Suh, Lichan Hong, Peter Pirolli, Ed H. Chi
Social networking has provided powerful new ways to find people, organize groups, and share information. Recently, the potential functionalities of the ubiquitous infrastructure le...