Social networks are ubiquitous. The discovery of close-knit clusters in these networks is of fundamental and practical interest. Existing clustering criteria are limited in that c...
Nina Mishra, Robert Schreiber, Isabelle Stanton, R...
Abstract: Sexually transmitted diseases and infections are, by definition, transferred among intimate social settings. Although the circumstances under which these social settings ...
Courtney Corley, Armin R. Mikler, Diane J. Cook, K...
Automated reasoning about human behavior is a central goal of artificial intelligence. In order to engage and intervene in a meaningful way, an intelligent system must be able to ...
Tanzeem Choudhury, Matthai Philipose, Danny Wyatt,...
The new social media sites--blogs, wikis, del.icio.us and Flickr, among others--underscore the transformation of the Web to a participatory medium in which users are actively crea...
A procedure is described for finding sets of key players in a social network. A key assumption is that the optimal selection of key players depends on what they are needed for. Acc...
Identifying consumer preferences is a key challenge in customizing electronic commerce sites to individual users. The increasing availability of online social networks provides on...
Scholars, advertisers and political activists see massive online social networks as a representation of social interactions that can be used to study the propagation of ideas, soc...
We continue the line of research on graph compression started in [BV04], but we move our focus to the compression of social networks in a proper sense (e.g., LiveJournal): the app...
Paolo Boldi, Marco Rosa, Massimo Santini, Sebastia...
Abstract. The growing popularity of online social networks gave researchers access to large amount of network data and renewed interest in methods for automatic community detection...
We study the dynamics of the Naming Game [Baronchelli et al., (2006) J. Stat. Mech.: Theory Exp. P06014] in empirical social networks. This stylized agentbased model captures essen...