Abstract—Social conventions are useful self-sustaining protocols for groups to coordinate behavior without a centralized entity enforcing coordination. We perform an in-depth stu...
Online social media applications have exploded in popularity in the Web. In most of these applications, users interact with other users and create content that becomes available o...
Abstract: Social virtual worlds such as Second Life are digital representations of the real world where human-controlled avatars evolve and interact through social activities. Unde...
: This paper presents a generic agent-based framework for social-mobile applications, which has been developed as part of an ongoing linkage project. The MobiSoft project is driven...
Social network services have become a viable source of information for users. In Twitter, information deemed important by the community propagates through retweets. Studying the c...