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With the advancement of information systems, means of communications are becoming cheaper, faster and more available. Today, millions of people carrying smart-phones or tablets are able to communicate at practically any time and anywhere…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo , Christos Faloutsos , Renato Assunção , Rodrigo Alves , Antonio A. F. Loureiro

Atom is an anonymous messaging system that protects against traffic-analysis attacks. Unlike many prior systems, each Atom server touches only a small fraction of the total messages routed through the network. As a result, the system's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Albert Kwon , Henry Corrigan-Gibbs , Srinivas Devadas , Bryan Ford

Analyzing large-scale time-series network data, such as social media and email communications, poses a significant challenge in understanding social dynamics, detecting anomalies, and predicting trends. In particular, the scalability of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Cencheng Shen , Jonathan Larson , Ha Trinh , Xihan Qin , Youngser Park , Carey E. Priebe

Individuals are turning to increasingly anthropomorphic, general-purpose chatbots for AI companionship, rather than roleplay-specific platforms. However, not much is known about how individuals perceive and conduct their relationships with…

Conversational AI has now reached billions of users, yet existing datasets capture only what people say, not what they think. We introduce ThoughtTrace, the first large-scale dataset that pairs real-world multi-turn human--AI conversations…

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Despite global connectivity, societies seem to be increasingly polarized and fragmented. This phenomenon is rooted in the underlying complex structure and dynamics of social systems. Far from homogeneously mixing or adopting conforming…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-09-19 Leila Hedayatifar , Rachel A. Rigg , Yaneer Bar-Yam , Alfredo J. Morales

We present statistics for the structure and time-evolution of a network constructed from user activity in an Internet community. The vastness and precise time resolution of an Internet community offers unique possibilities to monitor social…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Petter Holme , Christofer R. Edling , Fredrik Liljeros

This paper addresses a new problem of understanding human gaze communication in social videos from both atomic-level and event-level, which is significant for studying human social interactions. To tackle this novel and challenging problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Lifeng Fan , Wenguan Wang , Siyuan Huang , Xinyu Tang , Song-Chun Zhu

Humans share a wide variety of images related to their personal experiences within conversations via instant messaging tools. However, existing works focus on (1) image-sharing behavior in singular sessions, leading to limited long-term…

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In this paper, we analyze statistical properties of a communication network constructed from the records of a mobile phone company. The network consists of 2.5 million customers that have placed 810 millions of communications (phone calls…

Group segregation or cohesion can emerge from micro-level communication, and AI-assisted messaging may shape this process. Here, we report a preregistered online experiment (N = 557 across 60 sessions) in which participants discussed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Faria Huq , Elijah L. Claggett , Hirokazu Shirado

A step-to-step introduction is provided on how to generate a semantic map from a collection of messages (full texts, paragraphs or statements) using freely available software and/or SPSS for the relevant statistics and the visualization.…

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Many real world networks, such as social networks, are primarily formed through local interactions between agents. Additionally, in contrast with common network models, social and biological networks exhibit a high degree of clustering.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-10 Navid Dianati , Nima Dehmamy

Face-to-face interactions reveal recurring patterns, suggesting the possibility of shared underlying mechanisms. More specifically, inter-contact durations, contact durations and number of contacts per edge share similar heavy-tail…

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Routing information through networks is a universal phenomenon in both natural and manmade complex systems. When each node has full knowledge of the global network connectivity, finding short communication paths is merely a matter of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-05-20 Marian Boguna , Dmitri Krioukov , kc claffy

Although recent studies show that both topological structures and human dynamics can strongly affect information spreading on social networks, the complicated interplay of the two significant factors has not yet been clearly described. In…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-07 Xiao-Ke Xu , Jian-Bo Wang , Ye Wu , Michael Small

We consider information dissemination in a large $n$-user wireless network in which $k$ users wish to share a unique message with all other users. Each of the $n$ users only has knowledge of its own contents and state information; this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-06 Yuxin Chen , Sanjay Shakkottai , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Mobile messaging services have gained a large share in global telecommunications. Unlike conventional services like phone calls, text messages or email, they do not feature a standardized environment enabling a federated and potentially…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Quirin Scheitle , Matthias Wachs , Johannes Zirngibl , Georg Carle

The data gathered in all kind of web-based systems, which enable users to interact with each other, provides an opportunity to extract social networks that consist of people and relationships between them. The emerging structures are very…

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