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INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
11 years 7 months ago
Sampling directed graphs with random walks
Abstract—Despite recent efforts to characterize complex networks such as citation graphs or online social networks (OSNs), little attention has been given to developing tools tha...
Bruno F. Ribeiro, Pinghui Wang, Fabricio Murai, Do...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Parallel crawling for online social networks
Given a huge online social network, how do we retrieve information from it through crawling? Even better, how do we improve the crawling performance by using parallel crawlers tha...
Duen Horng Chau, Shashank Pandit, Samuel Wang, Chr...
IMC
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Understanding online social network usage from a network perspective
Online Social Networks (OSNs) have already attracted more than half a billion users. However, our understanding of which OSN features attract and keep the attention of these users...
Fabian Schneider, Anja Feldmann, Balachander Krish...
COMSNETS
2012
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12 years 28 days ago
Assessing the veracity of identity assertions via OSNs
Anonymity is one of the main virtues of the Internet, as it protects privacy and enables users to express opinions more freely. However, anonymity hinders the assessment of the ve...
Michael Sirivianos, Kyungbaek Kim, Jian Wei Gan, X...
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Walking in Facebook: A Case Study of Unbiased Sampling of OSNs
With more than 250 million active users, Facebook (FB) is currently one of the most important online social networks. Our goal in this paper is to obtain a representative (unbiased...
Minas Gjoka, Maciej Kurant, Carter T. Butts, Athin...