Characterizing user behavior in online social networks

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 49-62

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

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR SOFTWARE SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

BROWSING; CLICKSTREAMS; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; SESSION; SOCIAL NETWORK AGGREGATORS; USER BEHAVIORS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; HTTP; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84877781555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1644893.1644900     Document Type: Conference Paper

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