In a ubiquitous computing environment, it is desirable to provide a user with information depending on a user's situation, such as time, location, user behavior, and social c...
—Opportunistic ad-hoc communication enables portable devices such as smartphones to effectively exchange information, taking advantage of their mobility and locality. The nature ...
Gjergji Zyba, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stratis Ioannid...
State-of-the-art techniques for probability sampling of users of online social networks (OSNs) are based on random walks on a single social relation. While powerful, these methods ...
Minas Gjoka, Carter T. Butts, Maciej Kurant, Athin...
Social network analysis investigates the structure of relations amongst social actors. A general approach to detect patterns of interaction and to filter out irregularities is to ...
In this study, we investigate self-organizing social hierarchies in multi-agent systems. Agents occupy the nodes of a smallworld network and interact exclusively with other agents...