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WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Community gravity: measuring bidirectional effects by trust and rating on online social networks
Several attempts have been made to analyze customer behavior on online E-commerce sites. Some studies particularly emphasize the social networks of customers. Users' reviews ...
Yutaka Matsuo, Hikaru Yamamoto
ICDM
2010
IEEE
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15 years 4 months ago
Discovering Overlapping Groups in Social Media
Abstract--The increasing popularity of social media is shortening the distance between people. Social activities, e.g., tagging in Flickr, bookmarking in Delicious, twittering in T...
Xufei Wang, Lei Tang, Huiji Gao, Huan Liu
WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Extracting community structure through relational hypergraphs
Social media websites promote diverse user interaction on media objects as well as user actions with respect to other users. The goal of this work is to discover community structu...
Yu-Ru Lin, Jimeng Sun, Paul Castro, Ravi B. Konuru...
CANDC
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
A tale of two online communities: fostering collaboration and creativity in scientists and children
There has been much recent interest in the development of tools to foster remote collaboration and shared creative work. An open question is: what are the guidelines for this proc...
Cecilia R. Aragon, Sarah S. Poon, Andrés Mo...
RPTEL
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
Supporting Self-Directed Learners and Learning Communities with Sociotechnical Environments
Making learning part of life is an essential challenge for inventing the future of our societies. Lifelong learning is a necessity rather than a possibility or a luxury to be cons...
Gerhard Fischer, Masanori Sugimoto