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RECSYS
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
FriendSensing: recommending friends using mobile phones
We propose FriendSensing, a framework that automatically suggests friends to mobile social-networking users. Using short-range technologies (e.g., Bluetooth) on her mobile phone, ...
Daniele Quercia, Licia Capra
CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Technology-mediated contributions: editing behaviors among new wikipedians
The power-law distribution of participation characterizes a wide variety of technology-mediated social participation (TMSP) systems, and Wikipedia is no exception. A minority of a...
Judd Antin, Coye Cheshire, Oded Nov
VSTTE
2005
Springer
16 years 5 days ago
Implications of a Data Structure Consistency Checking System
Abstract. We present a framework for verifying that programs correctly preserve important data structure consistency properties. Results from our implemented system indicate that o...
Viktor Kuncak, Patrick Lam, Karen Zee, Martin C. R...
CSCW
2004
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
People-to-People-to-Geographical-Places: The P3 Framework for Location-Based Community Systems
Abstract. In this paper we examine an emerging class of systems that link People-to-People-toGeographical-Places; we call these P3-Systems. Through analyzing the literature, we hav...
Quentin Jones, Sukeshini A. Grandhi, Loren G. Terv...
ESWS
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Reducing Ambiguity in Tagging Systems with Folksonomy Search Expansion
Abstract. Search facilities are vital for folksonomy (or social tagging mechanism) based systems. Although these systems allow great malleability and adaptability, they also surfer...
Jeff Z. Pan, Stuart Taylor, Edward Thomas