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ICWSM
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Why do Users Tag? Detecting Users' Motivation for Tagging in Social Tagging Systems
While recent progress has been achieved in understanding the structure and dynamics of social tagging systems, we know little about the underlying user motivations for tagging, an...
Markus Strohmaier, Christian Körner, Roman Ke...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Widespread Worry and the Stock Market
Eric Gilbert, Karrie Karahalios
ICWSM
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Modeling Group Dynamics in Virtual Worlds
In this study, we examine human social interactions within virtual worlds and address the question of how group interactions are affected by the surrounding game environment. To i...
Fahad Shah, Gita Reese Sukthankar, Chris Usher
ICWSM
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Sequential Influence Models in Social Networks
The spread of influence among individuals in a social network can be naturally modeled in a probabilistic framework, but it is challenging to reason about differences between vari...
Dan Cosley, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Jon M. Kleinbe...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 9 months ago
StepGreen.org: Increasing Energy Saving Behaviors via Social Networks
Decades of research have explored factors that can influence green behavior. However, much less is known about the ways in which technology in general, and social technologies in ...
Jennifer Mankoff, Susan R. Fussell, Tawanna Dillah...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 9 months ago
A Qualitative Examination of Topical Tweet and Retweet Practices
This work contributes to the study of retweet behavior on Twitter surrounding real-world events. We analyze over a million tweets pertaining to three events, present general tweet...
Meenakshi Nagarajan, Hemant J. Purohit, Amit P. Sh...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Mining User Home Location and Gender from Flickr Tags
Personal photos and their associated metadata reveal different aspects of our lives and, when shared online, let others have an idea about us. Automating the extraction of persona...
Adrian Popescu, Gregory Grefenstette
ICWSM
2010
13 years 9 months ago
ePluribus: Ethnicity on Social Networks
We propose an approach to determine the ethnic breakdown of a population based solely on people's names and data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. We demonstrate that our a...
Jonathan Chang, Itamar Rosenn, Lars Backstrom, Cam...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Measuring User Influence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy
Directed links in social media could represent anything from intimate friendships to common interests, or even a passion for breaking news or celebrity gossip. Such directed links...
Meeyoung Cha, Hamed Haddadi, Fabrício Benev...
ICWS
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Variability Modeling and QoS Analysis of Web Services Orchestrations
The ever-growing choice in diverse services is making service orchestration variability an essential aspect of a composite web service. Influence of this variation on the Quality o...
Ajay Kattepur, Sagar Sen, Benoit Baudry, Albert Be...