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JMLR
2012
11 years 6 months ago
Graphlet decomposition of a weighted network
We introduce the graphlet decomposition of a weighted network, which encodes a notion of social information based on social structure. We develop a scalable algorithm, which combi...
Hossein Azari Soufiani, Edo Airoldi
DIMVA
2011
12 years 7 months ago
Reverse Social Engineering Attacks in Online Social Networks
Social networks are some of the largest and fastest growing online services today. Facebook, for example, has been ranked as the second most visited site on the Internet, and has b...
Danesh Irani, Marco Balduzzi, Davide Balzarotti, E...
PERCOM
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Inference attacks by third-party extensions to social network systems
—We study inference attacks that can be launched via the extension API of Facebook. We explain the threat of these attacks through a reduction to authentication attacks, devise a...
Seyed Hossein Ahmadinejad, Mohd M. Anwar, Philip W...
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
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12 years 11 months ago
Data warehousing and analytics infrastructure at facebook
Scalable analysis on large data sets has been core to the functions of a number of teams at Facebook - both engineering and nonengineering. Apart from ad hoc analysis of data and ...
Ashish Thusoo, Zheng Shao, Suresh Anthony, Dhruba ...
ICONFERENCE
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Coordinating the ordinary: social information uses of Facebook by adults
Social network sites (SNSs) are bundles of information and communication tools that can be used to support collaboration, among other uses. In a qualitative study of adult Faceboo...
Donghee Yvette Wohn, Cliff Lampe, Jessica Vitak, N...
ICDM
2010
IEEE
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13 years 2 months ago
Privacy Violations Using Microtargeted Ads: A Case Study
In this paper we propose a new class of attacks that exploit advertising systems offering microtargeting capabilities in order to breach user privacy. We study the advertising syst...
Aleksandra Korolova
BCSHCI
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Dramaturgical capitalization of positive emotions: the answer for Facebook success?
Although user behavior in the popular Facebook social network site has been intensely investigated since the site came live in 2004, we know little about users' emotions and ...
Corina Sas, Alan J. Dix, Jennefer Hart, Ronghui Su
ICWSM
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Visualization of Social Interactions in Facebook
With the popularity of social networks such as Facebook, we have greatly extended our social interactions from the physical into the digital. With social networks we have an incre...
Takashi Okamoto, Kyle Buza
CSCW
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A face(book) in the crowd: social Searching vs. social browsing
Large numbers of college students have become avid Facebook users in a short period of time. In this paper, we explore whether these students are using Facebook to find new people...
Cliff Lampe, Nicole Ellison, Charles Steinfield
IMC
2009
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Network level footprints of facebook applications
With over half a billion users, Online Social Networks (OSNs) are the major new applications on the Internet. Little information is available on the network impact of OSNs, althou...
Atif Nazir, Saqib Raza, Dhruv Gupta, Chen-Nee Chua...