Abstract. The definition of a community in social networks varies with applications. To generalize different types of communities, the concept of linkpattern based community was pr...
In this work, we investigate the use of online or “crawling” algorithms to sample large social networks in order to determine the most influential or important individuals wit...
The skyline operator is a well established database primitive which is traditionally applied in a way that only a single skyline is computed. In this paper we use multiple skylines...
Abstract. Consider the scenario where information about a large network is distributed across several different parties or commercial entities. Intuitively, we would expect that th...
Troy Raeder, Marina Blanton, Nitesh V. Chawla, Kei...