— We examine the social behaviors of game experts in Everquest II, a popular massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMO). We rely on Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGM)...
David Huffaker, Jing (Annie) Wang, Jeffrey William...
Access to realistic, complex graph datasets is critical to research on social networking systems and applications. Simulations on graph data provide critical evaluation of new sys...
Alessandra Sala, Lili Cao, Christo Wilson, Robert ...
This paper describes and evaluates privacy-friendly methods for extracting quasi-social networks from browser behavior on user-generated content sites, for the purpose of finding ...
Foster J. Provost, Brian Dalessandro, Rod Hook, Xi...
PageRank-style authority analyses of Web graphs are of great importance for Web mining. Such authority analyses also apply to hot “Web 2.0” applications that exhibit a natural...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Matthia...
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,...