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We address the relation between persuasion and virality in social networks and provide preliminary findings based on a Digg dataset. In particular we want to understand whether a content categorized as persuasive (according to various metrics) can be categorized as viral as well. Results show that the persuasive properties of a content are related to its virality in different ways. These findings...
Poorly-chosen identifiers have been reported in the literature as misleading and increasing the program comprehension effort. Identifiers are composed of terms, which can be dictionary words, acronyms, contractions, or simple strings. We conjecture that the use of identical terms in different contexts may increase the risk of faults. We investigate our conjecture using a measure combining term entropy...
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