Characterizing user navigation and interactions in online social networks

Information Sciences

Volumn 195, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-24

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

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

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

Author keywords

Browsing; Clickstream; Online social networks; Session; Social network aggregator; User behavior

Indexed keywords

BROWSING; CLICKSTREAM; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; SESSION; SOCIAL NETWORKS; USER BEHAVIORS;

DESIGN; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84858438065     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2011.12.009     Document Type: Article

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