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EDBT
2009
ACM
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Evaluating very large datalog queries on social networks
We consider a near future scenario in which users of a Web 2.0 application, such as a social network, contribute to the application not only data, but also rules which automatical...
Royi Ronen, Oded Shmueli
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Gaming On and Off the Social Graph: The Social Structure of Facebook Games
—Games built on Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become a phenomenon since 3rd party developer tools were exposed by OSNs such as Facebook. However, apart from their explosive ...
Ben Kirman, Shaun Lawson, Conor Linehan
CEC
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
LoCost: A spatial social network algorithm for multi-objective optimisation
—Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) is increasingly being applied to optimisation of problems in engineering design and scientific investigation. While readily adapted to singleo...
Andrew Lewis
PAKDD
2010
ACM
117views Data Mining» more  PAKDD 2010»
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BASSET: Scalable Gateway Finder in Large Graphs
Given a social network, who is the best person to introduce you to, say, Chris Ferguson, the poker champion? Or, given a network of people and skills, who is the best person to he...
Hanghang Tong, Spiros Papadimitriou, Christos Falo...
NOSSDAV
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Second life: a social network of humans and bots
Second Life (SL) is a virtual world where people interact and socialize through virtual avatars. Avatars behave similarly to their human counterparts in real life and naturally de...
Matteo Varvello, Geoffrey M. Voelker
GECCO
2010
Springer
254views Optimization» more  GECCO 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
Evolving viral marketing strategies
One method of viral marketing involves seeding certain consumers within a population to encourage faster adoption of the product throughout the entire population. However, determi...
Forrest Stonedahl, William Rand, Uri Wilensky
ESWS
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Guarding a Walled Garden - Semantic Privacy Preferences for the Social Web
Abstract. With increasing usage of Social Networks, giving users the possibility to establish access restrictions on their data and resources becomes more and more important. Howev...
Philipp Kärger, Wolf Siberski
STOC
2010
ACM
228views Algorithms» more  STOC 2010»
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On the searchability of small-world networks with arbitrary underlying structure
Revisiting the “small-world” experiments of the ’60s, Kleinberg observed that individuals are very effective at constructing short chains of acquaintances between any two p...
Pierre Fraigniaud and George Giakkoupis
UM
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Bayesian Credibility Modeling for Personalized Recommendation in Participatory Media
In this paper, we focus on the challenge that users face in processing messages on the web posted in participatory media settings, such as blogs. It is desirable to recommend to us...
Aaditeshwar Seth, Jie Zhang, Robin Cohen
CIA
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Trust Networks on the Semantic Web
The so-called "Web of Trust" is one of the ultimate goals of the Semantic Web. Research on the topic of trust in this domain has focused largely on digital signatures, ce...
Jennifer Golbeck, Bijan Parsia, James A. Hendler