— Online service provision is becoming increasingly decentralized as system designers pursue the benefits gained from utilizing nodes at the periphery of the network. However, d...
The primary purpose of this paper is to describe the theoretical underpinnings of the construct Para-social Presence (PSP). Para-social presence refers to the extent to which a me...
Photographs have significant social roles. For example, they help families and friends to preserve an affective link and provide a support for communication. The increasing popular...
Explanations play an important part in the interaction with any intelligent system. This is particular important in context-aware and social awareness systems that regularly assume...
We introduce a new geometric, rank-based model for the link structure of on-line social networks (OSNs). In the geo-protean (GEO-P) model for OSNs nodes are identified with points ...