—We introduce a new data set which contains both a self-declared friendship network and self-chosen attributes from a finite list defined by the social networking site. We prop...
—We introduce a novel set of social network analysis based algorithms for mining the Web, blogs, and online forums to identify trends and find the people launching these new tren...
Peter A. Gloor, Jonas Krauss, Stefan Nann, Kai Fis...
—Social Network Analysis (SNA) has evolved as a popular, standard method for modeling meaningful, often hidden structural relationships in communities. Existing SNA tools often i...
Elizabeth M. Bonsignore, Cody Dunne, Dana Rotman, ...
Interobserver reliability and reproducibility are well known problems in experimental research within the social and behavioural sciences. We propose the use of formal techniques ...
Arjen van Alphen, Tibor Bosse, Catholijn M. Jonker...
—We describe a semantic imitation model of social tagging that integrates formal representations of semantics and a stochastic tag choice process to explain and predict emergent ...
Wai-Tat Fu, Thomas George Kannampallil, Ruogu Kang
—Mobile devices can produce continuous streams of data which are often specific to the person carrying them. We show that cell phone tracks from the MIT Reality dataset can be u...
—Reputation mechanisms are essential for online transactions, where the parties have little prior experience with one another. This is especially true when transactions result in...
—The stigmergy collaboration approach provides a hypothesized explanation about how online groups work together. In this research, we presented a stigmergy approach for building ...
Xiaohui Cui, Justin Beaver, Jim N. Treadwell, Thom...
—Sociological models of human behavior can explain population-level phenomena within social systems; computer modeling can simulate a wide variety of scenarios and allow one to p...
Andrea Apolloni, Karthik Channakeshava, Lisa Durbe...