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INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
13 years 12 days ago
SybilDefender: Defend against sybil attacks in large social networks
—Distributed systems without trusted identities are particularly vulnerable to sybil attacks, where an adversary creates multiple bogus identities to compromise the running of th...
Wei Wei, Fengyuan Xu, Chiu Chiang Tan, Qun Li
KDD
2009
ACM
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15 years 10 months ago
User grouping behavior in online forums
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...
Xiaolin Shi, Jun Zhu, Rui Cai, Lei Zhang
CHI
2000
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
The social life of small graphical chat spaces
This paper provides a unique quantitative analysis of the social dynamics of three chat rooms in the Microsoft VChat graphical chat system. Survey and behavioral data were used to...
Marc A. Smith, Shelly Farnham, Steven M. Drucker
CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Understanding geocaching practices and motivations
Geocaching is a location-based activity that has been practiced for a number of years. As a sustained and established activity it represents an important opportunity for understan...
Kenton O'Hara
CE
2007
104views more  CE 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
The distance from isolation: Why communities are the logical conclusion in e-learning
This paper argues that the internet is built around key technology design features of openness, robustness and decentralisation. These design features have transformed into social...
Martin Weller