: This paper presents a generic agent-based framework for social-mobile applications, which has been developed as part of an ongoing linkage project. The MobiSoft project is driven...
Social network services have become a viable source of information for users. In Twitter, information deemed important by the community propagates through retweets. Studying the c...
The new social media sites--blogs, wikis, Flickr and Digg, among others--underscore the transformation of the Web to a participatory medium in which users are actively creating, e...
Social networking applications have become very important web services that provide Internet-based platforms for their users to interact with their friends. With the advances in t...
Large-scale online communities need to manage the tension between critical mass and information overload. Slashdot is a news and discussion site that has used comment rating to al...