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CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Equilibria and Efficiency Loss in Games on Networks
Social networks are the substrate upon which we make and evaluate many of our daily decisions: our costs and benefits depend on whether--or how many of, or which of--our friends ar...
Joshua R. Davis, Zachary Goldman, Jacob Hilty, Eli...
COMPLEX
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Inter-Profile Similarity (IPS): A Method for Semantic Analysis of Online Social Networks
Online Social Networks (OSN) are experiencing an explosive growth rate and are becoming an increasingly important part of people's lives. There is an increasing desire to aid ...
Matt Spear, Xiaoming Lu, Norman S. Matloff, Shyhts...
PET
2010
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
How to Share Your Favourite Search Results while Preserving Privacy and Quality
Personalised social search is a promising avenue to increase the relevance of search engine results by making use of recommendations made by friends in a social network. More gener...
George Danezis, Tuomas Aura, Shuo Chen, Emre Kicim...
CIA
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Methods for Coalition Formation in Adaptation-Based Social Networks
: Coalition formation in social networks consisting of a graph of interdependent agents allows many choices of which task to select and with whom to partner in the social network. ...
Levi Barton, Vicki H. Allan
ASUNAM
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Groupthink and Peer Pressure: Social Influence in Online Social Network Groups
In this paper, we present a horizontal view of social influence, more specifically a quantitative study of the influence of neighbours on the probability of a particular node to jo...
Pan Hui, Sonja Buchegger
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Catalyzing social support for breast cancer patients
Social support is a critical, yet underutilized resource when undergoing cancer care. Underutilization occurs in two conditions: (a) when patients fail to seek out information, ma...
Meredith M. Skeels, Kenton T. Unruh, Christopher P...
WINE
2009
Springer
200views Economy» more  WINE 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
Pricing Strategies for Viral Marketing on Social Networks
Abstract. We study the use of viral marketing strategies on social networks that seek to maximize revenue from the sale of a single product. We propose a model in which the decisio...
David Arthur, Rajeev Motwani, Aneesh Sharma, Ying ...
WASA
2009
Springer
186views Algorithms» more  WASA 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
Utopia Providing Trusted Social Network Relationships within an Un-trusted Environment
Abstract. This paper introduces an unobtrusive method and distributed solution set to aid users of on-line social networking sites, by creating a trusted environment in which every...
William Gauvin, Benyuan Liu, Xinwen Fu, Jie Wang
KES
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Virtual Communities of Practice's Purpose Evolution Analysis Using a Concept-Based Mining Approach
Today, social networks systems have become more and more important. People have change their way to relate and communicate. Therefore, how to enhance contents and organization of a...
Sebastián A. Ríos, Felipe Aguilera, ...
GI
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Deriving Taxonomies from Automatic Analysis of Group Membership Structure in Large Social Networks
: We develop a method to create taxonomies in large social networks solely based on users group membership information. We illustrate our technique using an example of the Flickr p...
Marc Egger, Kai Fischbach, Peter A. Gloor, Andre L...