Both online and off, people frequently perform particular social roles. These roles organize behavior and give structure to positions in local networks. As more of social life bec...
Eric Gleave, Howard T. Welser, Thomas M. Lento, Ma...
Conviviality has been introduced as a social science concept for multiagent systems to highlight soft qualitative requirements like user friendliness of systems. In this paper we ...
Patrice Caire, Baptiste Alcalde, Leendert van der ...
Despite the growing popularity of Online Social Networks (OSNs), the workload characteristics of OSN servers, such as those hosting blog services, are not well understood. Understa...
Myeongjae Jeon, Jeaho Hwang, Youngjae Kim, Jae-Wan...
The formation of internet-based social networks has revived research on traditional social network models as well as interest-matching, or match-making, systems. In order to autom...
We study distributed content replication networks formed voluntarily by selfish autonomous users, seeking access to information objects that originate from distant servers. Each us...
Gerasimos G. Pollatos, Orestis Telelis, Vassilis Z...