This paper presents the results of a qualitative research whose objective was to broaden the understanding on the participation of youngsters and adolescents on Internet-based soc...
Caroline Queiroz Santos, Ana Maria Pereira Cardoso
This paper shows how Social Network Analysis, the sociological domain studying the interaction between people in specific social environments, can be used to assign roles to diff...
Reduced-rank decompositions provide descriptions of the variation among the elements of a matrix or array. In such decompositions, the elements of an array are expressed as produc...
We proposed compressive data gathering (CDG) that leverages compressive sampling (CS) principle to efficiently reduce communication cost and prolong network lifetime for large scal...
Web is being extensively used for personal expression, which includes ratings, reviews, recommendations, blogs. This user created content, e.g. book review on Amazon.com, becomes ...