The evolution of friendships in Chinese online social networks

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 81-87

  Yu, Louis ^a   King, Valerie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diffusion model; Homophily; Social influence; Social network; Web structure analysis

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION MODEL; HOMOPHILY; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; SOCIAL NETWORKS; WEB STRUCTURES;

BIOLOGY; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 78649313655     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SocialCom.2010.21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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