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...
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...
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...
: 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. ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
: 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...