Social networking services are a fast-growing business in the Internet. However, it is unknown if online relationships and their growth patterns are the same as in real-life socia...
Yong-Yeol Ahn, Seungyeop Han, Haewoon Kwak, Sue B....
Social network systems on the Internet, such MySpace and LinkedIn, are growing in popularity around the world. The level of such activity is now comparable to that associated with...
Understanding how users behave when they connect to social networking sites creates opportunities for better interface design, richer studies of social interactions, and improved ...
The analysis of social and technological networks has attracted a lot of attention as social networking applications and mobile sensing devices have given us a wealth of real data...
John Tang, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo, Vito L...
Web-based communities have become important places for people to seek and share expertise. We find that networks in these communities typically differ in their topology from other...