Using data from a popular online social network site, this paper explores the relationship between profile structure (namely, which fields are completed) and number of friends, gi...
This paper focuses on the discovery of surprising, unexpected patterns, based on a data mining method that consists of detecting instances of Simpson's paradox. By its very n...
Personal gazetteers record individuals' most important places, such as home, work, grocery store, etc. Using personal gazetteers in location-aware applications offers additio...
Changqing Zhou, Dan Frankowski, Pamela J. Ludford,...
As mobile devices become location-aware, they offer the promise of powerful new applications. While computers work with physical locations like latitude and longitude, people thin...
Changqing Zhou, Pamela J. Ludford, Dan Frankowski,...
— Increasing number of communication softwares are built on distributed architectures based on the Peer-toPeer (P2P) model, such as Skype [1], and PeerCast [2]. This model provid...