Peoples' need to socialise with others and greed for power can be best captured with Aristotle's famous description of human beings as "political animals"/&quo...
LeMai Nguyen, Luba Torlina, Konrad J. Peszynski, B...
We describe the design and evaluation of K-net, a social matching system to help people learn 'who knows what' in an organization by matching people with skills with tho...
N. Sadat Shami, Y. Connie Yuan, Dan Cosley, Ling X...
Influential people have an important role in the process of information diffusion. However, there are several ways to be influential, for example, to be the most popular or the...
With over half a billion users, Online Social Networks (OSNs) are the major new applications on the Internet. Little information is available on the network impact of OSNs, althou...
In countries such as China or Iran where Internet censorship is prevalent, users usually rely on proxies or anonymizers to freely access the web. The obvious difficulty with this a...