Although extensive studies have been conducted on online social networks (OSNs), it is not clear how to characterize information propagation and social influence, two types of impo...
In the paper, we present an approach to mining a directed social network from a message board on the Internet where vertices denote individuals and directed links denote the flow ...
Naohiro Matsumura, David E. Goldberg, Xavier Llor&...
The ever-increasing amount of information flowing through Social Media forces the members of these networks to compete for attention and influence by relying on other people to sp...
Daniel M. Romero, Wojciech Galuba, Sitaram Asur, B...
Weblogs (blogs) serve as a gateway to a large blog reader population, so blog authors can potentially influence a large reader population by expressing their thoughts and expertise...
Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) are computer based games in which players interact with one another in the virtual world. Worldwide revenues for MMORPGs h...