SOCIALCOM
2010
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2010
The huge size of online social networks (OSNs) makes it prohibitively expensive to precisely measure any properties which require the knowledge of the entire graph. To estimate the...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Retweeting is the key mechanism for information diffusion in Twitter. It emerged as a simple yet powerful way of disseminating information in the Twitter social network. Even thoug...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
-- New ties are often formed between people who already have friends in common. Though the social sciences have addressed the effects of existing structural patterns on the formati...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Service composition is a new paradigm for efficient and cost-effective IT service provisioning over the network. To safely and effectively deploy composed services within an organi...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Online communities are connecting large numbers of individuals and generating rich social network data, opening the way for empirical studies of social behavior. In this paper, we ...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Wikipedia is used every day by people all around the world, to satisfy a variety of information needs. We crosscorrelate multiple Wikipedia traffic data sets to infer various behav...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
As the value of reputation systems is widely recognized, the incentive to manipulate such systems is rapidly growing. We propose TAUCA, a scheme that identifies malicious users and...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
The typical task of unsupervised learning is to organize data, for example into clusters, typically disjoint clusters (eg. the K-means algorithm). One would expect (for example) a...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Sharing life-log information in a social community has many advantages, both for the user and society. But sharing any type of personal information is a threat to privacy. In parti...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
This paper proposes that social network data should be assumed public but treated private. Assuming this rather confusing requirement means that anonymity models such as kanonymity...