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CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Predicting Interests of People on Online Social Networks
—We introduce a new data set which contains both a self-declared friendship network and self-chosen attributes from a finite list defined by the social networking site. We prop...
Apoorv Agarwal, Owen Rambow, Nandini Bhardwaj
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Web Science 2.0: Identifying Trends through Semantic Social Network Analysis
—We introduce a novel set of social network analysis based algorithms for mining the Web, blogs, and online forums to identify trends and find the people launching these new tren...
Peter A. Gloor, Jonas Krauss, Stefan Nann, Kai Fis...
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
First Steps to Netviz Nirvana: Evaluating Social Network Analysis with NodeXL
—Social Network Analysis (SNA) has evolved as a popular, standard method for modeling meaningful, often hidden structural relationships in communities. Existing SNA tools often i...
Elizabeth M. Bonsignore, Cody Dunne, Dana Rotman, ...
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Improving Interobserver Reliability by Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Behavioural Research
Interobserver reliability and reproducibility are well known problems in experimental research within the social and behavioural sciences. We propose the use of formal techniques ...
Arjen van Alphen, Tibor Bosse, Catholijn M. Jonker...
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Semantic Imitation Model of Social Tag Choices
—We describe a semantic imitation model of social tagging that integrates formal representations of semantics and a stochastic tag choice process to explain and predict emergent ...
Wai-Tat Fu, Thomas George Kannampallil, Ruogu Kang
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Language of Life: Characterizing People Using Cell Phone Tracks
—Mobile devices can produce continuous streams of data which are often specific to the person carrying them. We show that cell phone tracks from the MIT Reality dataset can be u...
Alexy Khrabrov, George Cybenko
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Surfing a Web of Trust: Reputation and Reciprocity on CouchSurfing.com
—Reputation mechanisms are essential for online transactions, where the parties have little prior experience with one another. This is especially true when transactions result in...
Debra Lauterbach, Hung Truong, Tanuj Shah, Lada A....
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Stigmergy Approach for Open Source Software Developer Community Simulation
—The stigmergy collaboration approach provides a hypothesized explanation about how online groups work together. In this research, we presented a stigmergy approach for building ...
Xiaohui Cui, Justin Beaver, Jim N. Treadwell, Thom...
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Study of Information Diffusion over a Realistic Social Network Model
—Sociological models of human behavior can explain population-level phenomena within social systems; computer modeling can simulate a wide variety of scenarios and allow one to p...
Andrea Apolloni, Karthik Channakeshava, Lisa Durbe...