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...
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...
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...
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...
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...