User retention is important to the success of online social media, particularly in virtual world settings where users shape one another’s online experience. We study a rich set ...
In this study, we examine human social interactions within virtual worlds and address the question of how group interactions are affected by the surrounding game environment. To i...
—Modern applications such as web knowledge base, network traffic monitoring and online social networks have made available an unprecedented amount of network data with rich type...
Commonly represented as directed graphs, social networks depict relationships and behaviors among social entities such as people, groups, and organizations. Social network analysi...
A trust metric is a technique for predicting how much a user of a social network might trust another user. This is especially beneficial in situations where most users are unknown ...