Online popularity has enormous impact on opinions, culture, policy, and profits, especially with the advent of the social Web and Web advertising. Yet the processes that drive popu...
Jacob Ratkiewicz, Filippo Menczer, Santo Fortunato...
Matching problems are ubiquitous. They occur in economic markets, labor markets, internet advertising, and elsewhere. In this paper we focus on an application of matching for soci...
Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis, ...
Space is important for learning and socializing. Cyberworlds provide a new space for socialization and communication with a great degree of flexibility, allowing users to create a...
We introduce and motivate crowd computing, which combines mobile devices and social interactions to achieve large-scale distributed computation. An opportunistic network of mobile...
Derek Gordon Murray, Eiko Yoneki, Jon Crowcroft, S...
This paper presents data from a four month ethnographic study of professional pair programmers from two software development teams. Contrary to the current conception of pair prog...