The prevalence of online social network makes it compulsory to study how relations affect user choice. However, most existing methods leverage only first-order relations, that is, the direct neighbors are connected target user. high-order e.g., friends friends, which very informative reveal preference, have been largely ignored. In this work, we focus on modeling indirect influence from in netw...

Possible advantages of technology in educational context required the defining boundaries of formal and informal learning. Increasing opportunity to ubiquitous learning by technological support has revealed a question of how to discover the potential of individuals in the spontaneous environments such as social networks. This seems to be related with the question of what purposes in social netw...

Huigang Liang East Carolina University [email protected] Yajiong Xue East Carolina University [email protected] Weiling Ke Clarkson University [email protected] This article contributes to the technology acceptance literature by providing an enriched understanding about how team climate for innovation affects end users’ IT use. Empirical data collected from 103 physicians shows that te...

Although systematic evidence on the extent of spatial inequality in developing countries is still relatively scarce, a growing body of work documents the existence of such inequalities in countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America (Kanbur and Venables 2005a, 2005b; Kanbur, Venables, and Wan 2006). Little consensus has emerged, however, on the causes of spatial inequality or the ways i...