The life and death of online groups: Predicting group growth and longevity

WSDM 2012 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 673-682

  Kairam, Sanjay ^a   Wang, Dan J ^b   Leskovec, Jure ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Group formation; Information diffusion; Online communities; Social networks

Indexed keywords

COMBINED ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION PROCESS; FINE RESOLUTION; GROUP FORMATIONS; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; LIFE AND DEATH; NETWORK CONSTRAINTS; NEW MEMBERS; OFFLINE; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL MOVEMENTS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL SCIENTISTS;

DATA MINING; DIFFUSION; FORECASTING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); WORLD WIDE WEB;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84863284769     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2124295.2124374     Document Type: Conference Paper

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