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...
This paper describes and evaluates privacy-friendly methods for extracting quasi-social networks from browser behavior on user-generated content sites, for the purpose of finding ...
Foster J. Provost, Brian Dalessandro, Rod Hook, Xi...
Social networks support efficient decentralized search: people can collectively construct short paths to a specified target in the network. Rank-based friendship—where the prob...
David Barbella, George Kachergis, David Liben-Nowe...
We followed the work of an international research network that holds regular meetings in technology-enhanced environments. The team is geographically distributed and to support its...
Recommender Systems (RS) so far have been applied to many fields of e-commerce in order to assist users in finding the products that best meet their preferences. However, while th...