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CDC
2010
IEEE
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12 years 12 months ago
Implicit learning for explicit discount targeting in Online Social networks
Online Social networks are increasingly being seen as a means of obtaining awareness of user preferences. Such awareness could be used to target goods and services at them. We cons...
Srinivas Shakkottai, Lei Ying, Sankalp Sah
ICPADS
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Bandwidth- and Latency-Aware Peer-to-Peer Instant Friendcast for Online Social Networks
Online Social Networks (OSNs) are more and more popular recently; people may through them interact with each other for the purpose of social intercourse. The client/server OSN arch...
Jehn-Ruey Jiang, Chao-Wei Hung, Jih-Wei Wu
ICDM
2010
IEEE
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13 years 3 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
SOCINFO
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Social Manipulation of Online Recommender Systems
Abstract. Online recommender systems are a common target of attack. Existing research has focused on automated manipulation of recommender systems through the creation of shill acc...
Juan Lang, Matt Spear, Shyhtsun Felix Wu
CCS
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
User-friendly matching protocol for online social networks
In this paper, we outline a privacy-preserving matching protocol for OSN (online social network) users to find their potential friends. With the proposed protocol, a logged-in use...
Qiang Tang
APVIS
2009
13 years 6 months ago
HiMap: Adaptive visualization of large-scale online social networks
Visualizing large-scale online social network is a challenging yet essential task. This paper presents HiMap, a system that visualizes it by clustered graph via hierarchical group...
Lei Shi, Nan Cao, Shixia Liu, Weihong Qian, Li Tan...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Topological analysis of an online social network for older adults
Social network systems on the Internet, such MySpace and LinkedIn, are growing in popularity around the world. The level of such activity is now comparable to that associated with...
Marcella Wilson, Charles K. Nicholas
COCOA
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Positive Influence Dominating Set in Online Social Networks
Online social network has developed significantly in recent years as a medium of communicating, sharing and disseminating information and spreading influence. Most of current resea...
Feng Wang 0002, Erika Camacho, Kuai Xu
UIST
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Collabio: a game for annotating people within social networks
We present Collabio, a social tagging game within an online social network that encourages friends to tag one another. Collabio’s approach of incentivizing members of the social...
Michael Bernstein, Desney S. Tan, Greg Smith, Mary...
ASUNAM
2009
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Social Network Model Based on Keyword Categorization
A user profile on an online social network is characterized by its profile entries (keywords). In this paper, we study the relationship between semantic similarity of user keywo...
Prantik Bhattacharyya, Ankush Garg, Shyhtsun Felix...