Blockchain technology allows the implementation of a public ledger securely recording
transactions among peers without the need of trusted third parties. For both researchers and …

The assurance of information in the crowdsourcing domain cannot be committed to a single
party, but should be distributed over the crowd. Blockchain is an infrastructure allowing this …

In recent years, Reddit has attracted the interest of many researchers due to its popularity all
over the world. In this article, we aim at providing a contribution to the knowledge of this …

Distinct social networks are interconnected via membership overlap, which plays a key role
when crossing information is investigated in the context of multiple-social-network analysis …

The growing socialization of digital communication has prompted the introduction of social
networks into the economic activity of enterprises. Data derived from social networks is now …

Online social networks have become so pervasive in people's lives that they can play a
crucial role in design and development processes of applications. At moment, a gap exists …

It is not uncommon that people create multiple profiles in different social networks, spreading
out over them personal information. This leads to a multi-social-network scenario where …

The term assortativity indicates the tendency, for a network node, to be directly connected to
other nodes that are someway similar. In more technical terms, a given feature is assortative …

Data provided by social media becomes an increasingly important analysis material for
social scientists, market analysts, and other stakeholders. Diversity of interests leads to the …

In this paper, we present a preliminary idea for a crowdsourcing application aimed at driving
the process of global team formation to obtain diversity in the team. Indeed, it is well known …