Large-scale socially-generated metadata is one of the key features driving the growth and success of the emerging Social Web. Recently there have been many research efforts to stu...
We present an analysis of user conversations in on-line social media and their evolution over time. We propose a dynamic model that predicts the growth dynamics and structural pro...
We perform a statistical analysis of user’s reaction time to a new discussion thread in online debates on the popular news site Slashdot. First, we show with KolmogorovSmirnov t...
The past two years have been a turbulent time for the New Economy generally – and for the digital content industry in particular. In the wake of the dot.com and telecoms crashes...
Kornelia van der Beek, Paula M. C. Swatman, Cornel...
A growing trend in commercial search engines is the display of specialized content such as news, products, etc. interleaved with web search results. Ideally, this content should b...