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EDM
2010
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Peer Production of Online Learning Resources: A Social Network Analysis
This paper describes methods for collecting user activity data in a peer production educational system, the Instructional Architect (IA), and then takes a social network perspectiv...
Beijie Xu, Mimi Recker
BIS
2008
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Trustlet, Open Research on Trust Metrics
A trust metric is a technique for predicting how much a user of a social network might trust another user. This is especially beneficial in situations where most users are unknown ...
Paolo Massa, Kasper Souren
AAAI
2010
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Discovering Long Range Properties of Social Networks with Multi-Valued Time-Inhomogeneous Models
The current methods used to mine and analyze temporal social network data make two assumptions: all edges have the same strength, and all parameters are time-homogeneous. We show ...
Danny Wyatt, Tanzeem Choudhury, Jeff Bilmes
ASUNAM
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Detecting Highly Overlapping Communities with Model-Based Overlapping Seed Expansion
Abstract--As research into community finding in social networks progresses, there is a need for algorithms capable of detecting overlapping community structure. Many algorithms hav...
Aaron McDaid, Neil Hurley
IMC
2007
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Measurement and analysis of online social networks
Online social networking sites like Orkut, YouTube, and Flickr are among the most popular sites on the Internet. Users of these sites form a social network, which provides a power...
Alan Mislove, Massimiliano Marcon, P. Krishna Gumm...
FAW
2008
Springer
104views Algorithms» more  FAW 2008»
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Ranking of Closeness Centrality for Large-Scale Social Networks
Abstract. Closeness centrality is an important concept in social network analysis. In a graph representing a social network, closeness centrality measures how close a vertex is to ...
Kazuya Okamoto, Wei Chen, Xiang-Yang Li
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Multi-scale characterization of social network dynamics in the blogosphere
We have developed a computational framework to characterize social network dynamics in the blogosphere at individual, group and community levels. Such characterization could be us...
Munmun De Choudhury, Hari Sundaram, Ajita John, Do...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
SoRec: social recommendation using probabilistic matrix factorization
Data sparsity, scalability and prediction quality have been recognized as the three most crucial challenges that every collaborative filtering algorithm or recommender system conf...
Hao Ma, Haixuan Yang, Michael R. Lyu, Irwin King
MIR
2010
ACM
163views Multimedia» more  MIR 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
SNDocRank: a social network-based video search ranking framework
Multimedia ranking algorithms are usually user-neutral and measure the importance and relevance of documents by only using the visual contents and meta-data. However, users’ int...
Liang Gou, Hung-Hsuan Chen, Jung-Hyun Kim, Xiaolon...
JCDL
2010
ACM
187views Education» more  JCDL 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Social network document ranking
In search engines, ranking algorithms measure the importance and relevance of documents mainly based on the contents and relationships between documents. User attributes are usual...
Liang Gou, Xiaolong Zhang, Hung-Hsuan Chen, Jung-H...