Ever more frequently, social and particularly group interactions, involve mediated communication. Yet we know very little about the factors determining the effectiveness of the in...
Maria Cristina Brugnoli, Federico Morabito, Richar...
Recommender systems have been proposed to exploit the potential of social network by filtering the information and offer recommendations to a user that he is predicted to like. Co...
It is well known that different types of social ties have essentially different influence between people. However, users in online social networks rarely categorize their contact...
Recording the location of people using location-acquisition technologies, such as GPS, allows generating life patterns, which associate people to places they frequently visit. Con...
—Users querying massive social networks or RDF databases are often not 100% certain about what they are looking for due to the complexity of the query or heterogeneity of the dat...