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ACL
2012
11 years 7 months ago
Social Event Radar: A Bilingual Context Mining and Sentiment Analysis Summarization System
Social Event Radar is a new social networking-based service platform, that aim to alert as well as monitor any merchandise flaws, food-safety related issues, unexpected eruption o...
Wen-Tai Hsieh, Chen Ming Wu, Tsun Ku, Seng-cho Tim...
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
11 years 7 months ago
Fine-grained private matching for proximity-based mobile social networking
—Proximity-based mobile social networking (PMSN) refers to the social interaction among physically proximate mobile users directly through the Bluetooth/WiFi interfaces on their ...
Rui Zhang 0007, Yanchao Zhang, Jinyuan Sun, Guanhu...
ICDE
2012
IEEE
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11 years 7 months ago
Lookup Tables: Fine-Grained Partitioning for Distributed Databases
—The standard way to scale a distributed OLTP DBMS is to horizontally partition data across several nodes. Ideally, this results in each query/transaction being executed at just ...
Aubrey Tatarowicz, Carlo Curino, Evan P. C. Jones,...
ICONFERENCE
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Expressing well-being online: towards self-reflection and social awareness
Medicine, psychology and quality of life literature all point to the importance of not just asking ‘how are you?’, but assessing and being aware of self and others’ well-bei...
Paul André, Monica M. C. Schraefel, Alan J....
FIRSTMONDAY
2011
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12 years 11 months ago
The more people I meet, the more I like my dog: A study of pet-oriented social networks on the Web
There has been extensive research into friend-oriented and professional social networking websites, but relatively little work on passion-oriented sites designed to connect strang...
Jennifer Golbeck
SEMWEB
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Social Dynamics in Conferences: Analyses of Data from the Live Social Semantics Application
Popularity and spread of online social networking in recent years has given a great momentum to the study of dynamics and patterns of social interactions. However, these studies ha...
Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto, Martin Szomszor, Woute...
CORR
2008
Springer
126views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
Mining User Profiles to Support Structure and Explanation in Open Social Networking
The proliferation of media sharing and social networking websites has brought with it vast collections of site-specific user generated content. The result is a Social Networking Di...
Avare Stewart, Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl
ITP
2008
128views Mathematics» more  ITP 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
Gay men, Gaydar and the commodification of difference
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Ben Light, Gordon Fletcher, Alison Adam
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 5 months ago
Predicting the Future with Social Media
In recent years, social media has become ubiquitous and important for social networking and content sharing. And yet, the content that is generated from these websites remains larg...
Sitaram Asur, Bernardo A. Huberman
AVI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
A wearable interface for visualizing coauthor networks toward building a sustainable research community
In this paper, we introduce SCACS, a Social Context-Aware Communication System that facilitates face-to-face communications between old-timers and newcomers in a research communit...
Susumu Kuriyama, Masao Ohira, Hiroshi Igaki, Ken-i...