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The development of the Web engendered the emergence of virtual communities. Analyzing information flows and discovering leaders through these communities becomes thus, a major challenge in different application areas. In this paper, we present an algorithm that aims at detecting leaders in the context of behavioral networks. This algorithm considers the high connectivity and the potentiality of propagating...
This paper addresses questions of contextual learning experience sharing among users in personal learning environments. As learning environments has become personal and user oriented, a user can acquire knowledge and learning experiences anywhere and anytime by reading public or personal online learning resources aggregated by a set of provided tools. In this paper, we propose a system allowing a...
Trust among Internet users and thus social networks plays an important role in e-commerce and other Internet applications. However, the precise mathematical model of trust and thus applications based on trust in e-commerce system has not been satisfactorily established yet. In this paper, we present a probability theoretic framework to quantitatively measure trust as mathematical reasoning and to...
This paper describes a system that extends concepts of social networking application to create a physical social network (with the extra advantage of also working to save energy). TravelRole is a system that helps people choose to use their commute time to fulfill work, educational and recreational goals. The system matches people to rides that allow them to link carpooling with a personal goal such...
The most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, however the term “spam” is used to describe similar abuses in other media and mediums. Spam 2.0 (or Web 2.0 Spam) is refereed to as spam content that is hosted on online Web 2.0 applications. In this paper: we provide a definition of Spam 2.0, identify and explain different entities within Spam 2.0, discuss new difficulties associated with Spam...
Internet have become so indispensible in today's world. It is being used for varied purposes from using it as a source of information to use it for effective communication and sharing resources around the world. People today favor more for the communication oriented web portals like the chatting services and social networking portals. This has been evidently proved by the highly famous social networking...
According to the latest research results, service trading and execution platforms promote automated discovery, composition, contracting and adaptive execution of web services. This vision has not yet arrived in the business sector which is still dominated by manual services listed in person or company profiles in traditional business service directories and social networks. A combination of features...
In the social web in which ??people socialize or interact with each other throughout the World Wide Web, social interactions lead to the creation of explicit and meaningfully rich knowledge representations??. Emergence of social web shed light on the concept of collective intelligence (CI). Web 2.0 technologies as key part of social semantic web, play an important role to harness the CI. Web 2.0 technologies...
This paper presents methods for capturing and storing gaming related context information into online gamer created profiles. Captured information may not be manipulated while being processed and stored within user created profiles and therefore is reliable. We propose a concept of client side capturing of profile information within the working environment of a gamer playing online games and a profile...
Fifty years ago, Licklider illustrated a future image of on-line community. Warner concluded the structure of users' ??clique?? and then we have a consistent way to define users. Until today these theories keep inspiring us when we need to find a way out facing with the global crisis. Nowadays social networking service has already become the focus point in IT industry, but most social networks are...
Ubiquitous name-based information management was studied. Multilingual single-character domain name interfaces proved to be convenient mobile user interfaces for multilingual users, when searching for name-based information and registering name-based information in real-time social networks. We also studied the multilingual domain names as accessing keys to name-based information management for ubiquitous...
Network evolution is a hot research topic especially when social networking has become an important Web application. The access histories of Web users which contain the users traces' on a social network have not been considered useful data. However, they may reveal more about the network's connectedness if the history's time-sensitive characteristic is analyzed and studied. In this paper, we model...
As a newly emergent interpersonal communication media, social network site has been attracting researchers' attention world wide. Aiming at disclosing user characters and interpersonal communication pattern, an empirical study based on xiaonei.com is conducted. User's profile data of a typical university has been crawled based on which four types of interaction are identified. Then, these types are...
In recent years, social networking sites (SNSs) have increasingly gained popularity. With the existence of hundreds of such sites, it is not uncommon to have users switching between them. Thus retaining existing users and attracting new users is crucial to the success of an SNS. This paper frames the described phenomenon as a "cyber migration". We enlist and adapt the push-pull-mooring framework...
When it comes to discussing the future of electronic communication, social networking is the buzzword. The Internet has become a platform where new social networks emerge and the Internet it itself support the more traditional computer supported communication. The way users build and verifies different online networks for communities of people who share interests or individuals who presents themselves...
Web forums provide platforms for any Internet users around the world to communicate with each other and express their opinions. In many of the discussions in Web forums, it involves issues related to terrorism and crime. Some participants are even using the platform to propagandize their ideology or recruit members to commit crime. In this work, we propose a Web forum analysis system to analyze the...
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