Abstract. Several works have utilized network models to study peerto-peer botnets, particularly in evaluating the effectiveness of strategies aimed at taking down a botnet. We obs...
Online forums represent one type of social media that is particularly rich for studying human behavior in information seeking and diffusing. The way users join communities is a re...
: Network topology not only tells about tightly-connected “communities,” but also gives cues on more subtle properties of the vertices. We introduce a simple probabilistic late...
Abstract. This paper explores potential improvements to Zhang’s personalized trust approach for e-commerce, in particular examining means of optimizing the number of advisors tha...
Contemporary work increasingly involves interacting with strangers in technology-mediated environments. In this context, we come to rely on digital artifacts to infer characterist...
N. Sadat Shami, Kate Ehrlich, Geri Gay, Jeffrey T....