Real-world social networks are often hierarchical, reflecting the fact that some communities are composed of a few smaller, sub-communities. This paper describes a hierarchical B...
Haizheng Zhang, Wei Li, Xuerui Wang, C. Lee Giles,...
This paper examines how different facets of favorable user behavior drive the success of an online community by using a unique data set with surveys from 1,389 participants from t...
Blogging has become the newest communication medium for creating a virtual community, a set of blogs linking back and forth to one another’s postings, while discussing common to...
[Extended Abstract] Ken Wakita Tokyo Institute of Technology 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku Tokyo 152-8552, Japan wakita@is.titech.ac.jp Toshiyuki Tsurumi Tokyo Institute of Technolog...