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SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Churn in Social Networks: A Discussion Boards Case Study
Churn has been identified as an important issue in a wide range of industries. In social networks, churn represents a significant risk for the health and functioning of communities...
Marcel Karnstedt, Tara Hennessy, Jeffrey Chan, Con...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Failure Feedback for User Obligation Systems
In recent years, several researchers have proposed techniques for providing users with assistance in understanding and overcoming authorization denials. The incorporation of envir...
Murillo Pontual, Keith Irwin, Omar Chowdhury, Will...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 10 months ago
The Many Faces of Mentoring in an MMORPG
Mentoring refers to the phenomenon where a more skilled or knowledgeable person helps a less skilled or less knowledgeable person gain skill in a particular domain. In this paper w...
Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, David Huffaker, Jing Wan...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Detecting Social Situations from Interaction Geometry
A novel method for quantitatively measuring social interactions on small temporal and spatial scales on the basis of interaction geometry (reduced to the parameters interpersonal d...
Georg Groh, Alexander Lehmann, Jonas Reimers, Marc...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Decomposing Social Networks
: Networks having several hundred or more nodes and significant edge probabilities are extremely difficult to visualize. They typically appear as dense clumps, with the various sub...
Whitman Richards, Owen Macindoe
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Managed Mission Assurance - Concept, Methodology and Runtime Support
We interpret "mission assurance" to mean the guarantee that Mission Essential Functionality (MEF) provided by an information system is continued despite partial failures ...
Partha Pratim Pal, Kurt Rohloff, Michael Atighetch...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Development of Communication Model for Social Robots Based on Mobile Service
This paper describes an interactive social agent platform which examines anthropomorphic robot features in the mobile phone usage context. Our system is smart phone based robot age...
Ji-Dong Yim, Sungkuk Chun, Keechul Jung, Christoph...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 10 months ago
A Private and Reliable Recommendation System for Social Networks
Abstract--With the proliferation of internet-based social networks into our lives, new mechanisms to control the release and use of personal data are required. As a step toward thi...
T. Ryan Hoens, Marina Blanton, Nitesh V. Chawla
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Learning to Predict Ad Clicks Based on Boosted Collaborative Filtering
This paper addresses the topic of social advertising, which refers to the allocation of ads based on individual user social information and behaviors. As social network services (e...
Teng-Kai Fan, Chia-Hui Chang
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Graph Comparison Using Fine Structure Analysis
We introduce a novel technique for comparing graphs using the structure of their subgraphs, which we call a graph's fine structure. Our technique compares graphs using the ear...
Owen Macindoe, Whitman Richards