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KDD
2006
ACM
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16 years 6 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...
CHIMIT
2007
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Managing technology use and learning in nonprofit community organizations: methodological challenges and opportunities
We are investigating how to empower nonprofit community organizations to develop the information technology management practices required to carry out their civic goals. We highli...
Cecelia Merkel, Umer Farooq, Lu Xiao, Craig H. Gan...
HT
2006
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
A social hypertext model for finding community in blogs
Blogging has become the newest communication medium for creating a virtual community, a set of blogs linking back and forth to one another’s postings, while discussing common to...
Alvin Chin, Mark H. Chignell
CSE
2009
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Real World Routing Using Virtual World Information
—In this paper, we propose to leverage social graphs from Online Social Networks (OSN) to improve the forwarding efficiency of mobile networks, more particularly Delay Tolerant ...
Pan Hui, Nishanth R. Sastry
BMCBI
2006
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14 years 12 months ago
Cluster analysis of networks generated through homology: automatic identification of important protein communities involved in c
Background: Protein-protein interactions have traditionally been studied on a small scale, using classical biochemical methods to investigate the proteins of interest. More recent...
Pall F. Jonsson, Tamara Cavanna, Daniel Zicha, Pau...