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Showing 1 to 20 of 1041 for “"social network"”.
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Privacy-preserving social network analysis
<p>Data privacy in social networks is a growing concern that threatens to limit access to important information contained in these data structures. Analysis of the graph structure of social networks can provide valuable information for revenue generation and social science research, but …
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CHILDREN’S SOCIAL NETWORK: KIDS CLUB
… that if nurtured, would develop to great social cues and skills thereby improving their social aspects of life. Parents can conveniently benefit from a swift data sharing in the collaborative scrutiny of their kid's participation, in public activities facilitated through the internet …
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Behavior Sharing Social Network Application: Cimee
… iPhone application. We propose a location-sharingsocial network mobile application called Cimee, which combines the advantages of highcoverage, high speed Internet, diverse sensors on the smartphone, and a very large number ofsmartphone users. Research has been done about how mobile applications …
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SportMingles sports social network for iOS
… from middle school through college. With social media on the rise, there is a need for an application that takes advantage of the technologies incorporated in mobile devices with the ability to connect athletes in an area to one another. There is currently a lack of a social network …
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Traffic Characterization of Social Network Applications
Online Social Networks (OSNs) are popular tools for billions of people around the globe to communicate with each other. With the popularity of mobile devices and ubiquitous network connectivity, global Internet traffic, including OSN and video streaming traffic, has grown rapidly. Many OSNs recoup …
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Social network analysis in college choice.
This research paper employs Social Network Analysis to examine the effect of peer groups on the college application process, taking Baylor University as a case study. Degree centrality and eigenvector centrality are two centrality measures used as interested independent variables. Findings reveal …
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Social network effects on information aggregation
… inferred from the population's own perception of social connectivity, opinion polls where sociometric data is obtained independent of the populations beliefs and data aggregation using market mechanisms. On comparing the entropy of the error of between the prediction of each of these different …
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Clarifying sensor anomalies using social network feeds
The explosive growth in social networks that publish real-time content begs the question of whether their feeds can complement traditional sensors to achieve augmented sensing capabilities. One such capability is to explain anomalous sensor readings. Towards that end, in this work, we build an …
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Social network support for data delivery infrastructures
Network infrastructures often need to stage content so that it is accessible to consumers. The standard solution, deploying the content on a centralised server, can be inadequate in several situations. Our thesis is that information encoded in social networks can be used to tailor content staging …
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Database partitioning strategies for social network data
… two different data partitioning strategies for social network type workloads. The first strategy takes advantage of the heavy-tailed degree distributions of social networks to optimize the latency of vertex neighborhood queries. The second strategy takes advantage of the high temporal locality …
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Online social network sensors for influenza outbreaks
… correlations between postings on the online social network Twitter where users complain of influenza-like symptoms, and clinical data on actual influenza rates. In addition, previous research has shown that more popular individuals in a real-life social network are infected with influenza …
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Sociapedia : online collaboration over a social network
This paper introduces Sociapedia, a collaborative social network application that encourages friends to contribute content about each other. Sociapedia is designed upon the same principles that allowed ordinary web users to construct the comprehensive encyclopedia Wikipedia, and is built on top of …
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The Social Network and Attachment Bases of Loneliness
… claims two types of loneliness: emotional and social. Emotional loneliness is the affective reaction to the absence of a close attachment bond. Social loneliness stems from inadequate integration into a social network. Undergraduate residents of a university dormitory completed questionnaires …
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Policy issue networks: Social network analysis case studies
This research demonstrates that Social Network Analysis (SNA) can be a powerful, proactive tool for policy makers to understand the online policy networks in which they operate. It does so by undertaking SNA at two points in time to quantify the actor nodes of three Canadian public policy networks, …
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Leetocracy : Political participation, social network sites and inequality
This dissertation is about whether social network sites have the potential to bring about more equal participation. It deals with a phenomenon that has changed the underlying infrastructure of how millions of people communicate. It studies the way the use of social network sites affects …
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Open-source social Network Assessment Survey System (NASS)
… of survey questionnaires are instrumental in the social networks research. With the accelerating growth of theory and experimental knowledge in the area of social network analysis, there is a need for a centralized questionnaire database system for the collection and appropriate utilization of …
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Analysis and Evaluation of Social Network Anomaly Detection
As social networks become more prevalent, there is significant interest in studying these network data, the focus often being on detecting anomalous events. This area of research is referred to as social network surveillance or social network change detection. While there are a variety of proposed …
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Effective and Efficient Methodologies for Social Network Analysis
Performing social network analysis (SNA) requires a set of powerful techniques to analyze structural information contained in interactions between social entities. Many SNA technologies and methodologies have been developed and have successfully provided significant insights for small-scale …
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Social Network Analysis using Cultural Algorithms and its Variants
Finding relationships between social entities and discovering the underlying structures of networks are fundamental tasks for analyzing social networks. In recent years, various methods have been suggested to study these networks efficiently, however, due to the dynamic and complex nature that these …
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