The study of complex networks led to the belief that the connectivity of network nodes generally follows a Power-law distribution. In this work, we show that modeling large-scale ...
Alessandra Sala, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao, Sabrin...
Recently, social text streams (e.g., blogs, web forums, and emails) have become ubiquitous with the evolution of the web. In some sense, social text streams are sensors of the rea...
Recent years have witnessed the impacts of distributed content sharing (Wikipedia, Blogger), social networks (Facebook, MySpace), sensor networks, and pervasive computing. We beli...
Al Schmidt, Jack Li, Landon P. Cox, Romit Roy Chou...
Collaborative Filtering based on similarity suffers from a variety of problems such as sparsity and scalability. In this paper, we propose an ontological model of trust between us...
Alireza Zarghami, Soude Fazeli, Nima Dokoohaki, Mi...
We have friends we consider very close and acquaintances we barely know. The social sciences use the term tie strength to denote this differential closeness with the people in our...