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Showing 1 to 20 of 1456 for “"Social networks"”.
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Fairness in Social Networks
<p>In professional and other social settings, networks play an important role in people's lives. The communication between individuals and their positions in the network, may have a large impact on many aspects of their lives.In this work, I evaluate fairness from different …
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Supporting meaningful social networks
Recent years have seen exponential growth of social network sites (SNSs) such as Friendster, MySpace and Facebook. SNSs flatten the real-world social network by making personal information and social structure visible to users outside the ego-centric networks. They provide a new basis of trust and …
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Essays on Social Networks
… consists of three essays on the economics of social networks. It broadly deals with understanding the value of social connections on favour exchange and information exchange. Social networks facilitate trust, learning, and communication, all crucial in the modern online environment. Examining …
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Search using social networks
… web search which makes use of the searcher's social network, in addition to the hyper-link based score used in most search engines. This combination of social and absolute search scores aims to improve the visibility of information that is relevant to the searcher, while maintaining any …
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Information Diffusion on Social Networks
… thesis we model the diffusion of information on social networks. A game played on a specific type of graph generator, the iterated local transitivity model, is examined. We study how the dynamics of the game change as the graph grows, and the relationship between properties of the game on a graph …
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Reliability Analysis of Social Networks
… and the dissemination of information through Social networks. Social networks have long been used to model the interactions between people in various Social and professional contexts. These networks allow for the explicit modeling of the complex interrelations between relevant individuals …
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Three Essays on Social Networks
… informal job opportunities from their peers in a social network. In addition to formal income taxation and enforcement, individuals labor supply decisions depend on the number of their peers with informal jobs and the strength of social ties. Workers allocate more time to informal activities when …
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Dynamic partitioning of social networks
… the problem of dynamic partitioning of online social networks (OSN). The problem is practically important since it lays the foundation of many applications. If OSN users are treated as vertices and their connections, like friendships or conversations, as edges, social networks can be …
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Three Essays on Social Networks
In three chapters I study the formation of social networks, and the impact the structures that arise may have in various economic settings. First, I develop a model of social network formation with heterogeneous agents and incomplete information. The model predicts an equilibrium in which agents …
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Privacy engineering for social networks
… I enumerate several privacy problems in online social networks (OSNs) and describe a system called Footlights that addresses them. Footlights is a platform for distributed social applications that allows users to control the sharing of private information. It is designed to compete with the …
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Sensor networks for social networks
… of software that makes use of Bayesian belief networks and signal processing techniques to make meaningful inferences about real-world phenomena using data obtained from sensor networks. The effectiveness of the software is validated by applying it to the problem of detecting face-to-face …
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Social networks in industrial organization
… of communication that takes place within the social network. I find a number of results: (i) demand is more elastic in the presence of word of mouth; (ii) the monopolist reduces the price to induce additional word of mouth for regular goods, however for goods whose valuation is greater for …
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Social networks for lonely objects
… to rethink how we interact with our objects and networks of objects, and close the communication gap between man and machine. 'This thesis defines social and super-mechanical affordances for products which may consist of many physical and digital objects. These new objects will not look like …
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An Empirical Approach to Social Networks
Social networks tend to shape our views about the world. Our study conducts an empirical analysis of social network dynamics using Twitter data. We ask whether social networks influence voting decisions, and determine whether or not people make consistent choices based on their tweets or what they …
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Graph Representation Learning for Social Networks
Online social networks provide a rich source of information about millions of users worldwide. However, due to sparsity and complex structure, analyzing these networks is quite challenging and expensive. Recently, graph embedding emerged to map networked data into low-dimensional representations, …
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Information sampling from online social networks
The student, Suhansanu Kumar, accepted the attached license on 2021-04-14 at 11:22.
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Learning to de-anonymize social networks
Releasing anonymized social network data for analysis has been a popular idea among data providers. Despite evidence to the contrary the belief that anonymization will solve the privacy problem in practice refuses to die. This dissertation contributes to the field of social graph de-anonymization …
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Constructing brand loyalty via social networks
Identifying the construction of brand loyalty via social networks requires an analysis of the information sharing of a product or brand amongst a social network, therefore indicating the strength of the brand loyalty members of a social network not only have towards a brand, but also promote to …
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Artwitter : the reinterpretation of social networks
… as a design and critical tool. My thesis chooses social networks to critique, from which I reinterpret social networks into an application Artwitter. Through combining social networks with augmented reality, Artwitter enables its users to post their moments as texts, graffiti or virtual objects in …
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An algorithmic approach to social networks
Social networks consist of a set of individuals and some form of social relationship that ties the individuals together. In this thesis, we use algorithmic techniques to study three aspects of social networks: (1) we analyze the "small-world" phenomenon by examining the geographic patterns of …
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