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KDD
2006
ACM
179views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
14 years 8 months ago
Group formation in large social networks: membership, growth, and evolution
The processes by which communities come together, attract new members, and develop over time is a central research issue in the social sciences -- political movements, professiona...
Lars Backstrom, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Jon M. Kle...
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Are you sleeping?: sharing portrayed sleeping status within a social network
Within a group of peers, it is often useful or interesting to know whether someone in the group has gone to bed or whether they have awakened in the morning. This information, nat...
Sunyoung Kim, Julie A. Kientz, Shwetak N. Patel, G...
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
On optimising personal network size to manage information flow
PN refer to the set of ties a specific individual has with other people. There is significant variation in the size of an individual’s PN and this paper explores the effect o...
Yu-En Lu, Sam Roberts, Tammy M. K. Cheng, Robin Du...
LOCA
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
SocialMotion: Measuring the Hidden Social Life of a Building
In this paper we present an approach to analyzing the social behaviors that occur in a typical office space. We describe a system consisting of over 200 motion sensors connected ...
Christopher Richard Wren, Yuri A. Ivanov, Ishwinde...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Optimal marketing strategies over social networks
We discuss the use of social networks in implementing viral marketing strategies. While influence maximization has been studied in this context (see Chapter 24 of [10]), we study ...
Jason D. Hartline, Vahab S. Mirrokni, Mukund Sunda...