Instead of aiming at the augmentation of human communication abilities as other social software does, social network services (SNS) provide better chances for people to enhance th...
In this paper, we examine a particular form of social network which we call a friendship-event network. A friendship-event network captures both the friendship relationship among ...
Rational and selfish nodes in P2P systems usually lack effective incentives to cooperate, contributing to the increase of free-riders, and degrading the system performance. Variou...
Participation in social networking sites has dramatically increased in recent years. Services such as Friendster, Tribe, or the Facebook allow millions of individuals to create on...
Ralph Gross, Alessandro Acquisti, H. John Heinz II...
Current social networks implement very simple protection mechanisms, according to which a user can state whether his/her personal data, relationships, and resources should be eith...