Viscous democracy for social networks

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 129-137

  Boldi, Paolo ^a   Bonchi, Francesco ^b   Castillo, Carlos ^b   Vigna, Sebastiano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

DECISION MAKING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 79960025111     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1953122.1953154     Document Type: Article

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