Same places, same things, same people?: Mining user similarity on social media

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 41-50

  Guy, Ido ^a   Jacovi, Michal ^a   Perer, Adam ^a   Ronen, Inbal ^a   Uziel, Erel ^a  

^a IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

Author keywords

Social media; Social networks; Social software; User similarity

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION DISCOVERY; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL SOFTWARE;

GROUPWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

FILE EDITORS;

EID: 77950907891     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1718918.1718928     Document Type: Conference Paper

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