Given the increasing dependence of our societies on networked information systems, the overall security of these systems should be measured and improved. Existing security metrics...
This study extends previous research that showed how informal social sanctions can backfire when members prefer friendship over enforcement of group norms. We use a type of neural...
In this work, we investigate the use of online or “crawling” algorithms to sample large social networks in order to determine the most influential or important individuals wit...
There is an ongoing debate, not just among academics but in popular culture, about whether social media can expand people's social networks, and whether online friends can be...
Computational social choice is a new discipline currently emerging at the interface of social choice theory and computer science. It is concerned with the application of computati...