We present Aardvark, a social search engine. With Aardvark, users ask a question, either by instant message, email, web input, text message, or voice. Aardvark then routes the que...
Previous work analyzing social networks has mainly focused on binary friendship relations. However, in online social networks the low cost of link formation can lead to networks w...
Given a huge online social network, how do we retrieve information from it through crawling? Even better, how do we improve the crawling performance by using parallel crawlers tha...
Duen Horng Chau, Shashank Pandit, Samuel Wang, Chr...
The online games market has matured in recent years. It is now a multi-billion dollar business with hundreds of millions players worldwide. At the same time, social networking pla...
A unique type of Web service, called a Social Network Service (SNS), first appeared in 2003. Some researches suggested a method to extract meaningful information from SNSs. Such ...