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KDD
2006
ACM
179views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
16 years 2 days ago
Group formation in large social networks: membership, growth, and evolution
The processes by which communities come together, attract new members, and develop over time is a central research issue in the social sciences -- political movements, professiona...
Lars Backstrom, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Jon M. Kle...
ISI
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Detecting Hidden Hierarchy in Terrorist Networks: Some Case Studies
This paper provides a novel algorithm to automatically detect the hidden hierarchy in terrorist networks. The algorithm is based on centrality measures used in social network analy...
Nasrullah Memon, Henrik Legind Larsen, David L. Hi...
CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Catalyzing social support for breast cancer patients
Social support is a critical, yet underutilized resource when undergoing cancer care. Underutilization occurs in two conditions: (a) when patients fail to seek out information, ma...
Meredith M. Skeels, Kenton T. Unruh, Christopher P...
INFOCOM
2011
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A distributed and privacy preserving algorithm for identifying information hubs in social networks
—This paper addresses the problem of identifying the top-k information hubs in a social network. Identifying topk information hubs is crucial for many applications such as advert...
Muhammad Usman Ilyas, Muhammad Zubair Shafiq, Alex...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Twittering by cuckoo: decentralized and socio-aware online microblogging services
Online microblogging services, as exemplified by Twitter, have become immensely popular during the latest years. However, current microblogging systems severely suffer from perfor...
Tianyin Xu, Yang Chen, Xiaoming Fu, Pan Hui