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SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 5 months ago
The Swarm Model in Open Source Software Developer Communities
Most of the current swarm model studies and applications try to mimic the collective behaviors of social animals, such as birds and ants. The studies seek to solve tasks similar to...
Xiaohui Cui, Justin M. Beaver, Everett Stiles, Lau...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Classification of Short Text Comments by Sentiment and Actionability for VoiceYourView
Much has been documented in the literature on sentiment analysis and document summarisation. Much of this applies to long structured text in the form of documents and blog posts. W...
William Simm, Maria Angela Ferrario, Scott Songlin...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Learning Influence Propagation of Personal Blogs with Content and Network Analyses
Weblogs (blogs) serve as a gateway to a large blog reader population, so blog authors can potentially influence a large reader population by expressing their thoughts and expertise...
Il-Chul Moon, Dongwoo Kim, Yohan Jo, Alice H. Oh
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 5 months ago
A Multi-factor Approach to Securing Software on Client Computing Platforms
Protecting the integrity of software platforms, especially in unmanaged consumer computing systems is a difficult problem. Attackers may attempt to execute buffer overflow attacks ...
Raghunathan Srinivasan, Vivek Iyer, Amit Kanitkar,...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Incentive Compatible Distributed Data Mining
Abstract--In this paper, we propose a game-theoretic mechanism to encourage truthful data sharing for distributed data mining. Our proposed mechanism uses the classic VickreyClarke...
Murat Kantarcioglu, Robert Nix
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 8 months ago
From Communication to Collaboration: Simulating the Emergence of Inter-organizational Collaboration Network
Inter-organizational networks often have multiple dimensions, each one denoting a type of relationship. In this research, we studied how one dimension of the network, a collaborati...
Kang Zhao, John Yen, Louis-Marie Ngamassi Tchouake...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 8 months ago
A Decision Theoretic Approach to Data Leakage Prevention
Abstract--In both the commercial and defense sectors a compelling need is emerging for rapid, yet secure, dissemination of information. In this paper we address the threat of infor...
Janusz Marecki, Mudhakar Srivatsa, Pradeep Varakan...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Precursors and Laggards: An Analysis of Semantic Temporal Relationships on a Blog Network
We explore the hypothesis that it is possible to obtain information about the dynamics of a blog network by analysing the temporal relationships between blogs at a semantic level, ...
Telmo Menezes, Camille Roth, Jean-Philippe Cointet
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Assessing the Value of Contributions in Tagging Systems
-- Assessing the value of individual users' contributions in peer-production systems is paramount to the design of mechanisms that support collaboration and improve users'...
Elizeu Santos-Neto, Flavio Figueiredo, Jussara M. ...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 8 months ago
OSNAC: An Ontology-based Access Control Model for Social Networking Systems
Abstract--As the information flowing around in social networking systems is mainly related or can be attributed to their users, controlling access to such information by individual...
Amirreza Masoumzadeh, James B. D. Joshi