Online communities are connecting large numbers of individuals and generating rich social network data, opening the way for empirical studies of social behavior. In this paper, we ...
-- New ties are often formed between people who already have friends in common. Though the social sciences have addressed the effects of existing structural patterns on the formati...
Abstract--With the proliferation of internet-based social networks into our lives, new mechanisms to control the release and use of personal data are required. As a step toward thi...
The visual system plays a predominant role in the human perception. Although all components of the eye are important to perceive visual information, the retina is a fundamental pa...
Full-bandwidth connectivity between all servers of a data center may be necessary for all-to-all traffic patterns, but such interconnects suffer from high cost, complexity, and en...