Paying attention to each other in visible work communities: Modeling bursty systems of multiple activity streams

Proceedings - SocialCom 2010: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT 2010: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 276-281

  Olson, Jamie F ^a   Howison, James ^a   Carley, Kathleen M ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE CHAIN; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; GENERATIVE MECHANISM; ONLINE WORK; OPEN SOURCES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENTITIES; SOCIAL PROCESS; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES; WIKIPEDIA;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; HYDRAULICS; PROBABILITY;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 78649251490     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SocialCom.2010.46     Document Type: Conference Paper

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