Towards a characterization of egocentric networks in online social networks

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7046 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 524-533

  Arnaboldi, Valerio ^a   Passarella, Andrea ^a   Tesconi, Maurizio ^a   Gazzè, Davide ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ego networks; Measurements; Online Social Networks

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF DATA; EGOCENTRIC NETWORKS; FACEBOOK; HUMAN SOCIAL NETWORKS; MEASUREMENT CAMPAIGN; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; QUANTITATIVE VARIABLES; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SOCIAL TIES;

INTERNET; MEASUREMENTS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 81255163138     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-25126-9_64     Document Type: Conference Paper

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