People come to online communities seeking information, encouragement, and conversation. When a community responds, participants benefit and become more committed. Yet interactions...
Jaime Arguello, Brian S. Butler, Elisabeth Joyce, ...
The scale-free network shown in the small world phenomenon indicates that our human society consists of a small number of people who play the role of hubs linked with many nodes (...
: The overall purpose of the research discussed here is the enhancement of home-based care by revealing individual patterns in the life of a person, through modelling of the "...
Nubia M. Gil, Nick A. Hine, John L. Arnott, Julien...
This paper examines the location traces of 489 users of a location sharing social network for relationships between the users' mobility patterns and structural properties of ...
Justin Cranshaw, Eran Toch, Jason I. Hong, Aniket ...
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?...