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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"community evolution"”.
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FreeLib: A Self-Sustainable Peer-to-Peer Digital Library Framework for Evolving Communities
… performance by utilizing the novel concept of community evolution. As demonstrated in this thesis, bringing users sharing similar interest together in a community significantly enhances the search performance. Evolving users into communities is based on a simple analysis of user access patterns …
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Paleontology and Paleoecology of the Nada Member of the Borden Formation (Lower Mississippian) in Eastern Kentucky
… toward the end of the time of Nada deposition.Community paleoecological study was carried out with the application of the concepts of community components, tiering, and guilds. Biotic interactions were represented in the Nada fauna by the platyceratid-crinoid, the platyceratid-tabulate coral, …
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SAMPLING AND CHARACTERIZING EVOLVING COMMUNITIES IN SOCIAL NETWORKS
… data. Getting complete access to the data for community studies is unrealistic in most cases. In this work, we address the problem of crawling networks to identify community structure. Firstly, we present a network sampling technique to crawl the community structure of dynamic networks when …
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Implicit Affinity Networks
Although they clearly exist, affinities among individuals are not all easily identified. Yet, they offer unique opportunities to discover new social networks, strengthen ties among individuals, and provide recommendations. We propose the idea of Implicit Affinity Networks (IANs) to build, …
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Everyday Farm Life in the Moxee Valley 1915-1950: Historical Ethnography
… and cultural processes of farm life and its evolution for people living in this foremost hop-growing region of the United States. The larger goal is to characterize the community and social processes for use as primary source documentation to create historically accurate programs at the …