Abstract. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how argumentation processes among a group of agents may affect the outcome of group judgments. In particular we will focus on ...
The formation of internet-based social networks has revived research on traditional social network models as well as interest-matching, or match-making, systems. In order to autom...
We propose a method for discovering the dependency relationships between the topics of documents shared in social networks using the latent social interactions, attempting to answ...
In this paper we look at how the structure of the social network and the nature of the social interactions can affect the behaviour of particle swarms. To this end, we create and ...
Riccardo Poli, William B. Langdon, Paul Marrow, Ja...
Current social networks implement very simple protection mechanisms, according to which a user can state whether his/her personal data, relationships, and resources should be eith...
We address the problem of efficiently discovering the influential nodes in a social network under the susceptible/infected/susceptible (SIS) model, a diffusion model where nodes ar...
Abstract. Computer manipulated social networks are usually built from the explicit assertion by users that they have some relation with other users or by the implicit evidence of s...
Users’ behaviors (actions) in a social network are influenced by various factors such as personal interests, social influence, and global trends. However, few publications sys...
Chenhao Tan, Jie Tang, Jimeng Sun, Quan Lin, Fengj...
Abstract. Reasoning about social networks (labeled, directed, weighted graphs) is becoming increasingly important and there are now models of how certain phenomena (e.g. adoption o...
Paulo Shakarian, V. S. Subrahmanian, Maria Luisa S...
"Petimo" is an interactive robotic toy designed to protect children from potential risks in social networks and the virtual world and helps them to make a safely connect...
Adrian David Cheok, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Cha...