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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...