A review of Facebook research in the social sciences
RE Wilson, SD Gosling… - … on psychological science, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
With over 800 million active users, Facebook is changing the way hundreds of millions of
people relate to one another and share information. A rapidly growing body of research has …
people relate to one another and share information. A rapidly growing body of research has …
Understanding user behavior in online social networks: A survey
Currently, online social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, and
Foursquare have become extremely popular all over the world and play a significant role in …
Foursquare have become extremely popular all over the world and play a significant role in …
Network sampling: From static to streaming graphs
Network sampling is integral to the analysis of social, information, and biological networks.
Since many real-world networks are massive in size, continuously evolving, and/or …
Since many real-world networks are massive in size, continuously evolving, and/or …
Enterprise: breadth-first graph traversal on GPUs
The Breadth-First Search (BFS) algorithm serves as the foundation for many graph-
processing applications and analytics workloads. While Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) …
processing applications and analytics workloads. While Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) …
Workload characterization: A survey revisited
Workload characterization is a well-established discipline that plays a key role in many
performance engineering studies. The large-scale social behavior inherent in the …
performance engineering studies. The large-scale social behavior inherent in the …
On Facebook, most ties are weak
On Facebook, most ties are weak Page 1 78 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | NOVEMBER
2014 | VOL. 57 | NO. 11 contributed articles On Facebook, Most Ties Are Weak …
2014 | VOL. 57 | NO. 11 contributed articles On Facebook, Most Ties Are Weak …
Beyond random walk and metropolis-hastings samplers: why you should not backtrack for unbiased graph sampling
Graph sampling via crawling has been actively considered as a generic and important tool
for collecting uniform node samples so as to consistently estimate and uncover various …
for collecting uniform node samples so as to consistently estimate and uncover various …
Towards unbiased BFS sampling
M Kurant, A Markopoulou… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Breadth First Search (BFS) is a widely used approach for sampling large graphs. However, it
has been empirically observed that BFS sampling is biased toward high-degree nodes …
has been empirically observed that BFS sampling is biased toward high-degree nodes …
Making friends and communicating on Facebook: Implications for the access to social capital
A Bohn, C Buchta, K Hornik, P Mair - Social Networks, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, we explore the dynamics of access to social capital on Facebook. Existing
approaches to network-based social capital measures are adapted to the case of Facebook …
approaches to network-based social capital measures are adapted to the case of Facebook …
Ontology based recommender system using social network data
Abstract Online Social Network (OSN) is considered a key source of information for real-time
decision making. However, several constraints lead to decreasing the amount of information …
decision making. However, several constraints lead to decreasing the amount of information …