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CIDR
2009
13 years 5 months ago
2009
Social sites have become extremely popular among users but have they attracted equal attention from the research community? Are they good only for simple tasks, such as tagging an...
ESORICS
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
Current tools for analysing information flow in programs build upon ideas going back to Denning's work from the 70's. These systems enforce an imperfect notion of informa...
ICWSM
2010
2010
Who Acquires Friends Through Social Media and Why? "Rich Get Richer" Versus "Seek and Ye Shall Find"
13 years 5 months ago
There is an ongoing debate, not just among academics but in popular culture, about whether social media can expand people's social networks, and whether online friends can be...
INFOCOM
2011
IEEE
12 years 7 months ago
2011
IEEE
—In this paper, we propose a Bayesian-inference based recommendation system for online social networks. In our system, users share their content ratings with friends. The rating ...
SOFTWARE
1998
13 years 3 months ago
1998
development is a highly abstract process that requires intense concentration. The authors show that interrupting this process can significantly reduce a developer’s efficiency an...