We pose a fundamental question in understanding how to identify and design successful communities: What factors predict whether a community will grow and survive in the long term?...
Abstract. Within the large body of research in complex network analysis, an important topic is the temporal evolution of networks. Existing approaches aim at analyzing the evolutio...
A social network is defined as a social structure of individuals, who are related (directly or indirectly to each other) based on a common relation of interest, e.g. friendship, t...
Recent years have witnessed the dramatic popularity of online social networking services, in which millions of members publicly articulate mutual "friendship" relations....
We discover communities from social network data, and analyze the community evolution. These communities are inherent characteristics of human interaction in online social network...
Yu-Ru Lin, Yun Chi, Shenghuo Zhu, Hari Sundaram, B...