Blogs, discussion forums and social networking sites are an excellent source for people’s opinions on a wide range of topics. We examine the application of voting theory to “I...
Alfredo Alba, Varun Bhagwan, Julia Grace, Daniel G...
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...
Social network sites rely on the contributions of their members to create a lively and enjoyable space. Recent research has focused on using personalization and recommender techno...
The rapid adoption of location tracking and mobile social networking technologies raises significant privacy challenges. Today our understanding of people's location sharing ...
Eran Toch, Justin Cranshaw, Paul Hankes Drielsma, ...
Web-based communities have become important places for people to seek and share expertise. We find that networks in these communities typically differ in their topology from other...