Abstract. We are developing a decentralized approach to trust based on referral systems, where agents adaptively give referrals to one another to find other trustworthy agents. In...
—Social Network Analysis (SNA) has evolved as a popular, standard method for modeling meaningful, often hidden structural relationships in communities. Existing SNA tools often i...
Elizabeth M. Bonsignore, Cody Dunne, Dana Rotman, ...
We prove and extend a conjecture of Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos (KKT) on the spread of influence in social networks. A social network can be represented by a directed graph where...
With the explosion of social media, scalability becomes a key challenge. There are two main aspects of the problems that arise: 1) data volume: how to manage and analyze huge data...
Ching-Yung Lin, Jimeng Sun, Nan Cao, Shixia Liu, S...
The under-representation of women in computer and information science (CIS) has created a crisis in availability of qualified CIS professionals and diversity of perspectives. Many...
Mary Beth Rosson, John M. Carroll, Dejin Zhao, Tim...