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AINA
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Using Social Network Theory Towards Development of Wireless Ad Hoc Network Trust
The evolution and existence of stable trust relations have been studied extensively in the context of social theory. However, reputation systems or trust schemes have only been re...
Sameer Pai, Tanya Roosta, Stephen B. Wicker, Shank...
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Improving cooperation in peer-to-peer systems using social networks
Rational and selfish nodes in P2P systems usually lack effective incentives to cooperate, contributing to the increase of free-riders, and degrading the system performance. Variou...
Wenyu Wang, Li Zhao, Ruixi Yuan
PODC
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Brief announcement: revisiting the power-law degree distribution for social graph analysis
The study of complex networks led to the belief that the connectivity of network nodes generally follows a Power-law distribution. In this work, we show that modeling large-scale ...
Alessandra Sala, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao, Sabrin...
BCSHCI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
"The devil you know knows best": how online recommendations can benefit from social networking
The defining characteristic of the Internet today is an abundance of information and choice. Recommender Systems (RS), designed to alleviate this problem, have so far not been ver...
Philip Bonhard, Martina Angela Sasse, Clare Harrie...

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203views
13 years 9 months ago
Multigraph Sampling of Online Social Networks
State-of-the-art techniques for probability sampling of users of online social networks (OSNs) are based on random walks on a single social relation. While powerful, these methods ...
Minas Gjoka, Carter T. Butts, Maciej Kurant, Athin...