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2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Assessing the Attack Threat due to IRC Channels
This practical experience report presents the results of an investigation into the threat of attacks associated with the chat medium IRC. A combination of simulated users (i.e., b...
Robert Meyer, Michel Cukier
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Accounting for taste: using profile similarity to improve recommender systems
Recommender systems have been developed to address the abundance of choice we face in taste domains (films, music, restaurants) when shopping or going out. However, consumers curr...
Philip Bonhard, Clare Harries, John D. McCarthy, M...
MOBIHOC
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Bubble rap: social-based forwarding in delay tolerant networks
In this paper we seek to improve our understanding of human mobility in terms of social structures, and to use these structures in the design of forwarding algorithms for Pocket S...
Pan Hui, Jon Crowcroft, Eiko Yoneki
ICIW
2009
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Using Propagation of Distrust to Find Untrustworthy Web Neighborhoods
Web spamming, the practice of introducing artificial text and links into web pages to affect the results of searches, has been recognized as a major problem for search engines. Bu...
Panagiotis Takis Metaxas
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
A model of norm emergence and innovation in language change
We analyze and extend a recently proposed model of linguistic diffusion in social networks, to analytically derive time to convergence, and to account for the innovation phase of...
Samarth Swarup, Andrea Apolloni, Zsuzsanna Fagyal