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WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Social search in "Small-World" experiments
The "algorithmic small-world hypothesis" states that not only are pairs of individuals in a large social network connected by short paths, but that ordinary individuals ...
Sharad Goel, Roby Muhamad, Duncan J. Watts
HICSS
2003
IEEE
167views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2003»
15 years 12 months ago
Discovering Group Interaction Patterns in a Teachers Professional Community
Managers and group leaders of a community may not have enough information to help them direct the community development. In this paper, we adopt social network analysis, graph the...
Fu-ren Lin, Chun-Hung Chen, Kuo-Lung Tsai
SIGIR
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Detecting spammers and content promoters in online video social networks
A number of online video social networks, out of which YouTube is the most popular, provides features that allow users to post a video as a response to a discussion topic. These f...
Fabrício Benevenuto, Tiago Rodrigues, Virg&...
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SIGECOM
2010
ACM
183views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
15 years 11 months ago
The unavailable candidate model: a decision-theoretic view of social choice
One of the fundamental problems in the theory of social choice is aggregating the rankings of a set of agents (or voters) into a consensus ranking. Rank aggregation has found appl...
Tyler Lu, Craig Boutilier
IHI
2010
186views Healthcare» more  IHI 2010»
15 years 1 months ago
Analysis of an online health social network
With the continued advances of Web 2.0, health-centered Online Social Networks (OSNs) are emerging to provide knowledge and support for those interested in managing their own heal...
Xiaoxiao Ma, Guanling Chen, Juntao Xiao