The instant information exchanging network of the Internet is interpreted as the consequences of invisible connection between humans. In the graph based studies the nodes are human beings and the edges represent various social relationships. The interactions among users can be interpreted via the formation and evolution of semantics. The interactive as well as intertwined behaviors are the foun...

We conducted an interpretive, qualitative research study to investigate herding behavior around trending posts about disasters on Sina Weibo, one of the most popular social media websites in China. Our preliminary results show that in response to uncertain situations, users engage in sensemaking (Seidel, 2013) and become emotionally engaged (Taylor, 2015) as they converge around trending posts ...

The control of voices within a country is as important to a censor as blocking information from outside. This control must extend to social media. Screening every post prior to publication is not practical; instead, censors find and delete objectionable content after it has been posted. This paper presents GhostPost, a distributed system that conveniently and safely restores deleted posts on an...

Web servers are usually located in a well-organized data center where these servers connect with the outside Internet directly through backbones. Meanwhile, the application-layer distributed denials of service (AL-DDoS) attacks are critical threats to the Internet, particularly to those business web servers. Currently, there are somemethods designed to handle the AL-DDoS attacks, but most of th...

This article introduces a sensor information networking architecture, called SINA, that facilitates querying, monitoring, and tasking of sensor networks. SINA plays the role of a middleware that abstracts a network of sensor nodes as a collection of massively distributed objects. The SINA’s execution environment provides a set of configuration and communication primitives that enable scalable a...

Tafsir Falsafi (philosophical exegesis) is one of the Islamic intellectual resource that have occupied intellectualism Muslim thinkers since early period. However, epistemological side interpretation model was problematic, as it creates controversy among readers. Today, still frequently found from some Quranic studies. This paper discusses Muhammad Husain al-Zahabi’s thoughts on philosophical i...

Sina Weibo is the most popular Twitter-like microblog service in China.

Vol. LI (June 2014), 300–319 *Ye Hu is Associate Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), Rex Yuxing Du is Hurley Associate Professor of Marketing (e-mail: rexdu@ bauer.uh.edu), and Sina Damangir is a doctoral student (e-mail: sdamangir@ uh.edu), C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston. The authors thank three anonymous JMR reviewers for their numerous inputs in improving the...

the main purpose of this study was to explore factors influencing immigration from rural to urban areas in varkaneh , a famous village and tourist destination located in western part of iran- hamedan. a questionnaire was designed and validated by a panel of experts from extension education dept. of bu-ali sina university and hamadan jihad of agriculture. its reliability was secured by cronbach’...