In this paper we introduce Social VPNs, a novel system architecture which leverages existing social networking infrastructures to enable ad-hoc VPNs which are self-configuring, s...
Renato J. O. Figueiredo, P. Oscar Boykin, Pierre S...
We present SmallWorlds, a visual interactive graph-based interface that allows users to specify, refine and build item-preference profiles in a variety of domains. The interface f...
Brynjar Gretarsson, John O'Donovan, Svetlin Bostan...
The phenomenal success of social networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, has revolutionized the way people communicate. This paradigm has attracted the attention ...
Zhijun Yin, Manish Gupta, Tim Weninger, Jiawei Han
As online social networks (OSN) attempt to mimic real life social networks, we have made progress towards using OSNs to provide us with data to allow for richer and more robust onl...
Social media such as blogs, Facebook, Flickr, etc., presents data in a network format rather than classical IID distribution. To address the interdependency among data instances, ...