Using Imperfect Information in Online Social Systems: Applications and Measures of Betweenness
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...As defined by Freeman [2], degree centrality is a count of the number of edges incident upon a given node (considering both directed and non-directed networks)....
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...A well known measure for betweeenness centrality is Freeman’s [2]....
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...Since existing empirical evidence [9] point out that social systems on the Web contain strong local clusters, it seems reasonable to examine the individuals acting as brokers between the clusters as potential sources of communication and contact that add value [1] to the membership in on-line social systems....
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...Existing studies on social capital [1] discuss two main arguments on the network structures that create social capital....
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...sub-networks [1]....
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...But it also provides a particular way to collect social network data that opens the opportunity to automatically compute diverse social network measures, which might be meaningful for analysis and decision making inside organizations [1], or for professionals and entrepreneurs using on-line tools....
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"Using Imperfect Information in Onli..." refers background in this paper
...Since existing empirical evidence [9] point out that social systems on the Web contain strong local clusters, it seems reasonable to examine the individuals acting as brokers between the clusters as potential sources of communication and contact that add value [1] to the membership in on-line social systems....
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...Recent studies [9] have reported that the graphs structure on common social software sites have a densely connected core comprising of between 1% and 10% of the highest degree nodes, such that removing this core completely disconnects the graph, but there is also evidence of the presence of strong local clustering....
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"Using Imperfect Information in Onli..." refers methods in this paper
...Arguably the most common method of collecting data on personal and social networks is to ask people to recall network ties of one type or another [8]....
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