One of the major challenges in the design of social technologies is the evaluation of their qualities of use and how they are appropriated over time. While the field of HCI abound...
We propose and evaluate a model for controlling infection patterns defined over rounds or real time in a gossipbased protocol using adaptive fanout. We model three versions of go...
In this paper we investigate distributed computation in dynamic networks in which the network topology changes from round to round. We consider a worst-case model in which the com...
Usenet may be regarded as the world’s largest conversational application, with over 17,000 newsgroups and 3 million users. Despite its ubiquity and popularity, however, we know ...
Steve Whittaker, Loren G. Terveen, William C. Hill...
—Epidemic models based on nonlinear differential equations have been extensively applied in a variety of systems as diverse as infectious outbreaks, marketing, diffusion of belie...