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KDD
2008
ACM
224views Data Mining» more  KDD 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
The structure of information pathways in a social communication network
Social networks are of interest to researchers in part because they are thought to mediate the flow of information in communities and organizations. Here we study the temporal dyn...
Gueorgi Kossinets, Jon M. Kleinberg, Duncan J. Wat...
WAW
2010
Springer
311views Algorithms» more  WAW 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Game-Theoretic Models of Information Overload in Social Networks
We study the effect of information overload on user engagement in an asymmetric social network like Twitter. We introduce simple game-theoretic models that capture rate competition...
Christian Borgs, Jennifer T. Chayes, Brian Karrer,...
ISWC
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Sensing and Modeling Human Networks using the Sociometer
Knowledge of how people interact is important in many disciplines, e.g. organizational behavior, social network analysis, information diffusion and knowledge management applicatio...
Tanzeem Choudhury, Alex Pentland
CISS
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Achieving network stability and user fairness through admission control of TCP connections
—This paper studies a network under TCP congestion control, in which the number of flows per user is explicitly taken into account. We present a control law for this variable th...
Andrés Ferragut, Fernando Paganini
NOSSDAV
2010
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Second life: a social network of humans and bots
Second Life (SL) is a virtual world where people interact and socialize through virtual avatars. Avatars behave similarly to their human counterparts in real life and naturally de...
Matteo Varvello, Geoffrey M. Voelker