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2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Tag-based social interest discovery
The success and popularity of social network systems, such as del.icio.us, Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube, have generated many interesting and challenging problems to the research...
Xin Li, Lei Guo, Yihong Eric Zhao
ICWSM
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Mobilizing Lurkers with a Targeted Task
Users of online communities are commonly classified into active members versus lurkers. In this work we experiment with a method designed to encourage lurkers to share their acqui...
Rosta Farzan, Joan Morris DiMicco, Beth Brownholtz
DESRIST
2009
Springer
135views Education» more  DESRIST 2009»
14 years 1 days ago
Towards a design theory for online communities
Online communities are increasingly important in modern social life. Yet, the diverse collection of guidelines that have directed online community design may not be keeping pace w...
David Gurzick, Wayne G. Lutters
KDD
2005
ACM
181views Data Mining» more  KDD 2005»
14 years 9 months ago
Evaluating similarity measures: a large-scale study in the orkut social network
Online information services have grown too large for users to navigate without the help of automated tools such as collaborative filtering, which makes recommendations to users ba...
Ellen Spertus, Mehran Sahami, Orkut Buyukkokten
KDD
2009
ACM
379views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 1 months ago
MetaFac: community discovery via relational hypergraph factorization
This paper aims at discovering community structure in rich media social networks, through analysis of time-varying, multi-relational data. Community structure represents the laten...
Yu-Ru Lin, Jimeng Sun, Paul Castro, Ravi B. Konuru...