With the explosion of social media, scalability becomes a key challenge. There are two main aspects of the problems that arise: 1) data volume: how to manage and analyze huge data...
Ching-Yung Lin, Jimeng Sun, Nan Cao, Shixia Liu, S...
We describe an approach for multi-modal characterization of social media by combining text features (e.g. tags as a prominent example of short, unstructured text labels) with spat...
Location appears to be one of the most important aspects of context in mobile communication. It is a complex piece of information involving several levels of detail. Location inter...
Abstract—We present an extended version of a software system SIGHTS1 (Statistical Identification of Groups Hidden in Time and Space), which can be used for the discovery, analys...
Jeffrey Baumes, Mark K. Goldberg, Mykola Hayvanovy...
In this paper, I describe progress in research designed to explore the effect of the combination of behavioral and visual fidelity of avatars on users' social presence in syn...