Measurement and analysis of online social networks

A Mislove, M Marcon, KP Gummadi… - Proceedings of the 7th …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
Online social networking sites like Orkut, YouTube, and Flickr are among the most popular
sites on the Internet. Users of these sites form a social network, which provides a powerful …

Walking in facebook: A case study of unbiased sampling of osns

M Gjoka, M Kurant, CT Butts… - 2010 Proceedings IEEE …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With more than 250 million active users, Facebook (FB) is currently one of the most
important online social networks. Our goal in this paper is to obtain a representative …

Practical recommendations on crawling online social networks

M Gjoka, M Kurant, CT Butts… - IEEE Journal on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Our goal in this paper is to develop a practical framework for obtaining a uniform sample of
users in an online social network (OSN) by crawling its social graph. Such a sample allows …

[LIBRO][B] Online social networks: measurement, analysis, and applications to distributed information systems

AE Mislove - 2009 - search.proquest.com
Recently, online social networking sites have exploded in popularity. Numerous sites are
dedicated to finding and maintaining contacts and to locating and sharing different types of …

On the bias of BFS (breadth first search)

M Kurant, A Markopoulou… - 2010 22nd International …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Breadth First Search (BFS) and other graph traversal techniques are widely used for
measuring large unknown graphs, such as online social networks. It has been empirically …

Towards unbiased BFS sampling

M Kurant, A Markopoulou… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Breadth First Search (BFS) is a widely used approach for sampling large graphs. However, it
has been empirically observed that BFS sampling is biased toward high-degree nodes …

Walking on a graph with a magnifying glass: stratified sampling via weighted random walks

M Kurant, M Gjoka, CT Butts… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Our objective is to sample the node set of a large unknown graph via crawling, to accurately
estimate a given metric of interest. We design a random walk on an appropriately defined …

[LIBRO][B] Web corpus construction

R Schäfer, F Bildhauer - 2013 - books.google.com
The World Wide Web constitutes the largest existing source of texts written in a great variety
of languages. A feasible and sound way of exploiting this data for linguistic research is to …

Temporal analysis of the wikigraph

LS Buriol, C Castillo, D Donato… - 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, available in more than 100 languages and comprising
over 1 million articles in its English version. If we consider each Wikipedia article as a node …

A walk in facebook: Uniform sampling of users in online social networks

M Gjoka, M Kurant, CT Butts, A Markopoulou - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2009 - arxiv.org
Our goal in this paper is to develop a practical framework for obtaining a uniform sample of
users in an online social network (OSN) by crawling its social graph. Such a sample allows …