This paper presents ethnographic fieldwork on Friendster, an online dating site utilizing social networks to encourage friend-of-friend connections. I discuss how Friendster appli...
Large and complex graphs representing relationships among sets of entities are an increasingly common focus of interest in data analysis--examples include social networks, Web gra...
Abstract. Extracting information from very large collections of structured, semistructured or even unstructured data can be a considerable challenge when much of the hidden informa...
Social networks are of interest to researchers in part because they are thought to mediate the flow of information in communities and organizations. Here we study the temporal dyn...
Gueorgi Kossinets, Jon M. Kleinberg, Duncan J. Wat...
Motivated by structural properties of the Web graph that support efficient data structures for in memory adjacency queries, we study the extent to which a large network can be com...
Flavio Chierichetti, Ravi Kumar, Silvio Lattanzi, ...
Knowledge discovery on social network data can uncover latent social trends and produce valuable findings that benefit the welfare of the general public. A growing amount of resea...
A social network can become bases for information infrastructure in the future. It is important to extract social networks that are not biased. Providing a simple means for users ...
Social Networking is one of the major technological phenomena of the Web 2.0, with hundreds of millions of people participating. Social networks enable a form of self expression f...
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Mohamed Shehab, Federica...