One major function of social networks (e.g., massive online social networks) is the dissemination of information such as scientific knowledge, news, and rumors. Information can be...
In many networks, vertices have hidden attributes that are correlated with the network's topology. For instance, in social networks, people are more likely to be friends if t...
Reputation is a fundamental instrument of partner selection. Developed within the domain of electronic auctions, reputation technology is being been imported into other applicatio...
To improve the search results for socially-connect users, we propose a ranking framework, Social Network Document Rank (SNDocRank). This framework considers both document contents...
Liang Gou, Hung-Hsuan Chen, Jung-Hyun Kim, Xiaolon...
Relational autocorrelation is ubiquitous in relational domains. This observed correlation between class labels of linked instances in a network (e.g., two friends are more likely ...
Recently, there has been much excitement in the research community over using social networks to mitigate multiple identity, or Sybil, attacks. A number of schemes have been propo...
Bimal Viswanath, Ansley Post, P. Krishna Gummadi, ...
The difficulty of scaling Online Social Networks (OSNs) has introduced new system design challenges that has often caused costly re-architecting for services like Twitter and Face...
Josep M. Pujol, Vijay Erramilli, Georgos Siganos, ...
Social network analysis has attracted increasing attention in recent years. In many social networks, besides friendship links amongst users, the phenomenon of users associating th...
—One of the most interesting and still not completely understood phenomena happening in Social Network Sites is their ability to spread (or not) units of information which may ag...