This paper intends to provide some insights of a scientific problem: how likely one’s interests can be inferred from his/her social connections – friends, friends’ friends,...
Popular online social networks such as Friendster and MySpace do more than simply reveal the superficial structure of social connectedness--the rich meanings bottled within social...
Online virtual worlds such as Second Life provide a rich medium for unstructured human interaction in a shared simulated 3D environment. However, many human interactions take place...
Social network analysis investigates the structure of relations amongst social actors. A general approach to detect patterns of interaction and to filter out irregularities is to ...
In social media, such as blogs, since the content naturally evolves over time, it is hard or in many cases impossible to organize the content for effective navigation. Thus, one c...