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DNIS
2005
Springer
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Modelling Peer-to-Peer Data Networks Under Complex System Theory
: A Peer-to-peer Data Network (PDN) is an open and evolving society of peer nodes that assemble into a network to share their data for mutual benefit. PDNs are enabled by distribu...
Cyrus Shahabi, Farnoush Banaei Kashani
GROUP
2005
ACM
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Searching for expertise in social networks: a simulation of potential strategies
People search for people with suitable expertise all of the time in their social networks – to answer questions or provide help. Recently, efforts have been made to augment this...
Jun Zhang, Mark S. Ackerman
ICMCS
2005
IEEE
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A Collaborative Annotation Framework
This paper describes our system that enables members of a social network to collaboratively annotate a shared media collection. The problem is important since online social networ...
Bageshree Shevade, Hari Sundaram, Min-Yen Kan
HICSS
2005
IEEE
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Social Networks in Peer-to-Peer Systems
The Gnutella protocol requires peers to broadcast messages to their neighbours when they search files. The message passing generates a lot of traffic in the network, which degrade...
Yamini Upadrashta, Julita Vassileva, Winfried K. G...
WAW
2007
Springer
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14 years 5 months ago
Clustering Social Networks
Social networks are ubiquitous. The discovery of close-knit clusters in these networks is of fundamental and practical interest. Existing clustering criteria are limited in that cl...
Nina Mishra, Robert Schreiber, Isabelle Stanton, R...
UM
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Push-Poll Recommender System: Supporting Word of Mouth
Abstract. Recommender systems produce social networks as a side effect of predicting what users will like. However, the potential for these social networks to aid in recommending i...
Andrew Webster, Julita Vassileva
SEMWEB
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
WWWatch: Watching the World in Different Views with Semantic Web
This paper develops a Semantic Web application, namely WorldWideWatch or WWWatch, in short. By employment of Semantic Web technologies, WWWatch analyses and visualizes social netwo...
Ekgarach Sumsiripong, Krissada Maleewong, Rachanee...
MDAI
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Public-Key Protocol for Social Networks with Private Relationships
Abstract. The need for protecting the privacy of relationships in social networks has recently been stressed in the literature. Conventional protection mechanisms in those networks...
Josep Domingo-Ferrer
EUROSSC
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
CenceMe - Injecting Sensing Presence into Social Networking Applications
Abstract. We present the design, prototype implementation, and evaluation of CenceMe, a personal sensing system that enables members of social networks to share their sensing prese...
Emiliano Miluzzo, Nicholas D. Lane, Shane B. Eisen...
ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Distributed task allocation in social networks
This paper proposes a new variant of the task allocation problem, where the agents are connected in a social network and tasks arrive at the agents distributed over the network. W...
Mathijs de Weerdt, Yingqian Zhang, Tomas Klos