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MIDDLEWARE
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Prometheus: User-Controlled P2P Social Data Management for Socially-Aware Applications
Recent Internet applications, such as online social networks and user-generated content sharing, produce an unprecedented amount of social information, which is further augmented b...
Nicolas Kourtellis, Joshua Finnis, Paul Anderson, ...
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Walking in Facebook: A Case Study of Unbiased Sampling of OSNs
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...
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
11 years 8 months ago
Sampling directed graphs with random walks
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...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Efficient top-k querying over social-tagging networks
Online communities have become popular for publishing and searching content, as well as for finding and connecting to other users. User-generated content includes, for example, pe...
Ralf Schenkel, Tom Crecelius, Mouna Kacimi, Sebast...
PODC
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Brief announcement: revisiting the power-law degree distribution for social graph analysis
The study of complex networks led to the belief that the connectivity of network nodes generally follows a Power-law distribution. In this work, we show that modeling large-scale ...
Alessandra Sala, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao, Sabrin...