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, ...
In this paper we give models and algorithms to describe and analyze the collaboration among authors of Wikipedia from a network analytical perspective. The edit network encodes wh...
As a platform for community networks, information spaces using the city metaphor are being developed in worldwide. This paper comparesthe trials of digital cities. Four digital cit...
The Pathfinder algorithm is widely used to prune social networks. The pruning maintains the geodesic distances between nodes. It has shown itself to be very useful in the analysis...
Vicente P. Guerrero Bote, Felipe Zapico-Alonso, Ma...
-- New ties are often formed between people who already have friends in common. Though the social sciences have addressed the effects of existing structural patterns on the formati...