Various online social networks (OSNs) have been developed rapidly on the Internet. Researchers have analyzed different properties of such OSNs, mainly focusing on the formation an...
Lei Guo, Enhua Tan, Songqing Chen, Xiaodong Zhang,...
During Spring 1998, we embarked on pedagogical journey into unknown terrains -- the terrains of collaborative teaching and World Wide Web instruction. In this paper we present a j...
In this paper, we analyze the role of the social group in a Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) environment as a source of contextual information. A model is presented to address the s...
We propose frameworks and algorithms for identifying communities in social networks that change over time. Communities are intuitively characterized as "unusually densely kni...
Chayant Tantipathananandh, Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf, D...
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...