The concept of social networks in conjunction with concepts from economics has attracted considerable attention in recent years. In this paper we propose the Stochastic Diffusion Market Search (SDMS), a novel contextual advertising method for mutual advertisement hosting among participating entities, where each owns a web site. In the scenario considered each participating agent/web-site buys o...

objective:  the aim of the research was investigating and visualizing the intellectual structure of thermodynamics subject area based on outputs of iranian scholars of the field indexed in thomson reuters web of science during time span of 1990-2009.   method: the population of the research was all references of the mentioned publications. the sample was the top 1 percent cited scholars of the ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the effectiveness of the mere integration of social network applications to provide a signal concerning the “trustworthiness” of an unfamiliar e-vendor in order to enhance subsequent purchase intentions. Design/methodology/approach – To investigate the impact of web communities on consumers’ initial trust beliefs (i.e. ability, benevolence and inte...

With the growth of the Internet comes a growth in a ubiquitous networked society. Common Web 2.0 applications include a rapidly growing trend for social network sites. Social network sites typically converged different relationship types into one group of ‘‘friends.’’ However, with such vast interconnectivity, convergence of relationships, and information sharing by individual users comes an in...

The process of retrieving conversations from social network sites differs from traditional Web information retrieval because it involves human communication aspects, like the degree of interest in the conversation explicitly or implicitly expressed by the interacting people and their influence/popularity. Our demo allows users to include these aspects into the search process. The system allows ...

Today the World Wide Web is undergoing a subtle but profound shift to Web 2.0, to become more of a social web. The use of collaborative technologies such as blogs and social networking site (SNS) leads to instant online community in which people communicate rapidly and conveniently with each other. Moreover, there are growing interest and concern regarding the topological structure of these new...

Web Usage Mining is the process of discovering user’s navigation pattern and predicting user’s behavior. The quantity of the Web usage data to be analyzed and its low quality are the principal problems in WUM. Several algorithms of data mining have been applied in order to extract the behaviors of the Web sites' users. In this present work, we have implemented a community detection technique in...

In this paper we examine how remixing or content reuse is supported in a wide range of user-generated content websites. In particular, we analyzed the ways in which microblogging, social network, video, photo, music and scientific data sharing websites support some the following forms of content reuse: (a) Licensed content brought in from external sources. (b) Content uploaded to the website an...

book social media are reading communities primarily developed as online social networks. this study aims to find precise criteria and indicators for evaluation of book social network and examine and rank the most popular book social networks. the sample population included 10 english and two persian book/reading social networks publicly available on the web. a checklist containing 9 main criter...