We investigate the breaking of ties between individuals in the online social network of Twitter, a hugely popular social media service. Building on sociology concepts such as stre...
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Recent years have witnessed the dramatic popularity of online social networking services, in which millions of members publicly articulate mutual "friendship" relations....
Abstract—Bringing heterogeneous devices like industrial machines, home appliances, and wireless sensors into the Web assumes the usage of well-defined standards and protocols. O...
Abstract--Reliability and/or availability are increasingly important aspects in the design of systems, especially networks and service offerings. Optimization here is a multi-crite...