ABSTRACT:
The growing popularity of Online Social Networks (OSNs) such as Facebook has led to extensive research on OSN friendship graphs. Arguably, however, the worth of an OSN resides in how much *activity* its users generate, rather than simply how connected its users are. It is important to consider general trends in online user engagement, the approaches taken to achieve this engagement, and its effects on the structure of the associated activity graph. We discuss the benefits and shortfalls of our model and its
applicability to OSN-based social gaming applications. We will discuss our on-going work on analyzing the adoption tree (or cascades) of OSN-based applications.
BIOGRAPHY:
Chen-Nee Chuah is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, Davis. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests are in the general area of computer networks and wireless/mobile computing, with emphasis on Internet measurements, network management, anomaly detection, and online social networks.
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