This workshop seeks to bring together researchers in both computer science and social sciences who are interested in developing and using topic-sentiment analysis methods to measu...
We address the problem of efficiently discovering the influential nodes in a social network under the susceptible/infected/susceptible (SIS) model, a diffusion model where nodes ar...
— We examine the social behaviors of game experts in Everquest II, a popular massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMO). We rely on Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGM)...
David Huffaker, Jing (Annie) Wang, Jeffrey William...
A trust metric is a technique for predicting how much a user of a social network might trust another user. This is especially beneficial in situations where most users are unknown ...
The study of collective behavior is to understand how individuals behave in a social network environment. Oceans of data generated by social media like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr a...