This paper presents a new personal data access control (PDAC) scheme that is inspired by the protection schemes practiced in communities for sharing valuable commodities. The PDAC...
It is increasingly common for users to interact with the web using a number of different aliases. This trend is a doubleedged sword. On one hand, it is a fundamental building bloc...
We present a framework for automatically summarizing social group activity over time. The problem is important in understanding large scale online social networks, which have dive...
As online communities proliferate, methods are needed to explore and capture patterns of activity within them. This paper focuses on the problem of identifying active subgroups wi...
As computer technologies start to permeate the everyday activities of a continuously growing population, social and technical as well as political and legal issues will surface. P...