Brains are complex networks. Previously, we revealed that specific connected structures are either significantly abundant or rare in cortical networks. However, it remains unkno...
Through ethnographic research, we document the rise of personal social networks in the workplace, which we call intensional networks. Paradoxically, we find that the most fundament...
Bonnie A. Nardi, Steve Whittaker, Heinrich Schwarz
? Network analysis, an area of mathematical sociology and anthropology crucial to the linking of theory and observation, developed dramatically in recent decades. These development...
— In this paper we present a formal description of PROSA, a P2P resource management system heavily inspired by social networks. Social networks have been deeply studied in the la...
Vincenza Carchiolo, Michele Malgeri, Giuseppe Mang...
: We examine the problem of identifying, measuring and evaluating communities in blogs. In our approach, we use sense of community (McMillan and Chavis, 1986) and centrality measur...
This paper studies a virus inoculation game on social networks. A framework is presented which allows the measuring of the windfall of friendship, i.e., how much players benefit i...
Dominic Meier, Yvonne Anne Oswald, Stefan Schmid, ...
Social networks on the web are growing dramatically in size and number. The huge popularity of sites like MySpace, Facebook, and others has drawn in hundreds of millions of users,...
Finding interaction patterns is a challenging problem, but this kind of information about processes or social networks might be useful for an organization’s management to unders...
Popular online social networks such as Friendster and MySpace do more than simply reveal the superficial structure of social connectedness--the rich meanings bottled within social...
Terrorist or criminal social network analysis is helpful for intelligence and law enforcement force in investigation. However, individual agency usually has part of the complete te...