The “small world” phenomenon, i.e., the fact that the global social network is strongly connected in the sense that every two persons are inter-related through a small chain o...
—With the rise of network science as an exciting interdisciplinary research topic, efficient graph algorithms are in high demand. Problematically, many such algorithms measuring...
This paper considers the theory of social capital and volunteerism in an online gaming community, the Internet Chess Club (ICC). We discuss how increased social capital provides b...
: Among Internet applications, blogs are known for its exponential growth in recent years. Blogs can be viewed as a kind of information system which people used to communicate with...
As a result of the recent explosion of sensor-equipped mobile phone market, the phenomenal growth of Internet and social network users, and the large deployment of sensor network i...