This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with "strangers". This makes ...
The Web has become an important information repository; often it is the first source a person turns to with an information need. One common way to search the Web is with a search ...
The current set of social networking platforms, e.g. Facebook and MySpace, has created a new class of Internet applications called social software. These systems focus on leveragi...
E. Michael Maximilien, Tyrone Grandison, Kun Liu, ...
While existing studies on YouTube’s massive user-generated video content have mostly focused on the analysis of videos, their characteristics, and network properties, little att...
Information grounds are places where people exchange information. Here we examine use of a mobile device-based social networking service as an information ground. The service allo...