EDBT
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
We consider a near future scenario in which users of a Web 2.0 application, such as a social network, contribute to the application not only data, but also rules which automatical...
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2009
IEEE
—Games built on Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become a phenomenon since 3rd party developer tools were exposed by OSNs such as Facebook. However, apart from their explosive ...
CEC
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2009
IEEE
—Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) is increasingly being applied to optimisation of problems in engineering design and scientific investigation. While readily adapted to singleo...
PAKDD
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2010
ACM
Given a social network, who is the best person to introduce you to, say, Chris Ferguson, the poker champion? Or, given a network of people and skills, who is the best person to he...
NOSSDAV
2010
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2010
Springer
Second Life (SL) is a virtual world where people interact and socialize through virtual avatars. Avatars behave similarly to their human counterparts in real life and naturally de...
GECCO
2010
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2010
Springer
One method of viral marketing involves seeding certain consumers within a population to encourage faster adoption of the product throughout the entire population. However, determi...
ESWS
2010
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2010
Springer
Abstract. With increasing usage of Social Networks, giving users the possibility to establish access restrictions on their data and resources becomes more and more important. Howev...
STOC
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2010
ACM
Revisiting the “small-world” experiments of the ’60s, Kleinberg observed that individuals are very effective at constructing short chains of acquaintances between any two p...
UM
2010
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2010
Springer
In this paper, we focus on the challenge that users face in processing messages on the web posted in participatory media settings, such as blogs. It is desirable to recommend to us...
CIA
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2003
Springer
The so-called "Web of Trust" is one of the ultimate goals of the Semantic Web. Research on the topic of trust in this domain has focused largely on digital signatures, ce...