In this paper we study the community structure of endorsement networks, i.e., social networks in which a directed edge u → v is asserting an action of support from user u to use...
Guillermo Garrido, Francesco Bonchi, Aristides Gio...
In this paper, we describe the design and development of a social game called Familiars. Inspired by the daemons in Pullman’s “Dark Material” trilogy, Familiars are animal c...
Ben Kirman, Eva Ferrari, Shaun Lawson, Jonathan Fr...
With the phenomenal success of networking sites (e.g., Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn), social networks have drawn substantial attention. On online social networking sites, link r...
Zhijun Yin, Manish Gupta, Tim Weninger, Jiawei Han
Building on the popularity of online social networks (OSNs) such as Facebook, social content-sharing applications allow users to form communities around shared interests. Millions...
Krishna P. N. Puttaswamy, Alessandra Sala, Ben Y. ...
The study of collective behavior is to understand how individuals behave in a social network environment. Oceans of data generated by social media like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr a...