On word-of-mouth based discovery of the web

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 381-396

  Rodrigues, Tiago ^a   Benevenuto, Fabrício ^b   Cha, Meeyoung ^c   Gummadi, Krishna ^d   Almeida, Virgílio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR SOFTWARE SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

information diffusion; social networks; web content discovery; word of mouth

Indexed keywords

FACEBOOK; GEOLOCATIONS; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; SOCIAL NETWORKS; WEB CONTENT; WEB CONTENT DISCOVERY; WORD-OF-MOUTH;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 82955165177     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2068816.2068852     Document Type: Conference Paper

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