Identity management has arisen as a major and urgent challenge for internet-based communications and information services. Internet services involve complex networks of relationshi...
Information is becoming pervasive in the contemporary society, and is increasingly saturating the visual senses and the cognitive efforts of the lay masses. As our attention for v...
Abstract. Estimating influence of a node is an important problem in social network analyses. We address this problem in a particular class of model for opinion propagation in whic...
One of the key tasks for analyzing conversational data is segmenting it into coherent topic segments. However, most models of topic segmentation ignore the social aspect of conver...
Viet-An Nguyen, Jordan L. Boyd-Graber, Philip Resn...
Information flows in a network where individuals influence each other. The diffusion rate captures how efficiently the information can diffuse among the users in the network. We p...