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CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Real World Routing Using Virtual World Information
—In this paper, we propose to leverage social graphs from Online Social Networks (OSN) to improve the forwarding efficiency of mobile networks, more particularly Delay Tolerant ...
Pan Hui, Nishanth R. Sastry
INFOCOM
2011
IEEE
13 years 1 months ago
Adaptive algorithms for detecting community structure in dynamic social networks
—Social networks exhibit a very special property: community structure. Understanding the network community structure is of great advantages. It not only provides helpful informat...
Nam P. Nguyen, Thang N. Dinh, Ying Xuan, My T. Tha...
HICSS
2009
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Users' Influence on the Success of Online Communities
This paper examines how different facets of favorable user behavior drive the success of an online community by using a unique data set with surveys from 1,389 participants from t...
Jakob Assmann, Philipp Sandner, Sophie Ahrens
TRUST
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
The Role of Soft Information in Trust Building: Evidence from Online Social Lending
We analyze empirical data of Germany’s largest online social lending platform Smava.de to exemplarily study the contribution of unstructured, ambiguous, or unverified informatio...
Stefanie Pötzsch, Rainer Böhme
IJWBC
2007
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13 years 9 months ago
Salutogenic community building
This paper explores a new approach to community building. It is based on the concept of salutogenesis; a proactive approach to community health which seeks preventative measures i...
Khamphira Viravong