In this work, we investigate the use of online or “crawling” algorithms to sample large social networks in order to determine the most influential or important individuals wit...
There is an ongoing debate, not just among academics but in popular culture, about whether social media can expand people's social networks, and whether online friends can be...
Computational social choice is a new discipline currently emerging at the interface of social choice theory and computer science. It is concerned with the application of computati...
PN refer to the set of ties a specific individual has with other people. There is significant variation in the size of an individual’s PN and this paper explores the effect o...
Yu-En Lu, Sam Roberts, Tammy M. K. Cheng, Robin Du...
Social networks play important roles in the Semantic Web: knowledge management, information retrieval, ubiquitous computing, and so on. We propose a social network extraction syst...