Identifying consumer preferences is a key challenge in customizing electronic commerce sites to individual users. The increasing availability of online social networks provides on...
Many online networks are measured and studied via sampling techniques, which typically collect a relatively small fraction of nodes and their associated edges. Past work in this a...
Maciej Kurant, Minas Gjoka, Yan Wang, Zack W. Almq...
—Extensive research has been conducted on top of online social networks (OSNs), while little attention has been paid to the data collection process. Due to the large scale of OSN...
We pose a fundamental question in understanding how to identify and design successful communities: What factors predict whether a community will grow and survive in the long term?...
Emergence of the web and online computing applications gave rise to rich large scale social activity data. One of the principal challenges then is to build models and understandin...