This paper presents a study of the various aspects of blog reading behavior. The analyzed data are obtained from a Japanese weblog hosting service, Doblog. Four kinds of social ne...
Complex networks exist in a wide array of diverse domains, ranging from biology, sociology, and computer science. These real-world networks, while disparate in nature, often compr...
Haizheng Zhang, C. Lee Giles, Henry C. Foley, John...
Collaborative web applications such as Facebook, Flickr and Yelp present new challenges for storing and querying large amounts of data. As users and developers are focused more on...
Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, David A. Patterson,...
Mobile agents operating in networked environments face threats from other agents as well as from the hosts (i.e., network sites) they visit. A black hole is a harmful host that de...
Stefan Dobrev, Paola Flocchini, Rastislav Kralovic...
Hierarchies are one of the most common organizational structures observed in multi-agent systems. In this paper we study vertical specialization as a reason for hierarchical struc...