Abstract--This paper is about how groups solve global coordination problems such as the distributed graph coloring problem. We focused on scenarios in which agents are not able to ...
This paper introduces the method secure-by-design as a way of constructing wireless embedded systems using component-based modeling frameworks. This facilitates design of secure a...
Theme network is a semantic network of document specific themes. So far Natural Language Processing (NLP) research patronized much of topic based summarizer system, unable to captu...
A representation of the World Wide Web as a directed graph, with vertices representing web pages and edges representing hypertext links, underpins the algorithms used by web search...
Text data pertaining to socio-technical networks often are analyzed separately from relational data, or are reduced to the fact and strength of the flow of information between node...
Mobile devices such as cell phone, PDA and smart phone have been so popularized that they are to be a necessity for everyday life. These mobile devices can be very useful tools to ...
The huge size of online social networks (OSNs) makes it prohibitively expensive to precisely measure any properties which require the knowledge of the entire graph. To estimate the...
Retweeting is the key mechanism for information diffusion in Twitter. It emerged as a simple yet powerful way of disseminating information in the Twitter social network. Even thoug...
Bongwon Suh, Lichan Hong, Peter Pirolli, Ed H. Chi
-- New ties are often formed between people who already have friends in common. Though the social sciences have addressed the effects of existing structural patterns on the formati...
Service composition is a new paradigm for efficient and cost-effective IT service provisioning over the network. To safely and effectively deploy composed services within an organi...