With the widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems and applications in our
everyday lives, accounting for fairness has gained significant importance in designing and …

Social data in digital form—including user-generated content, expressed or implicit relations
between people, and behavioral traces—are at the core of popular applications and …

Social virtual reality (VR) has the potential to gradually replace traditional online social
media, thanks to recent advances in consumer-grade VR devices and VR technology itself …

Graphs are one of the key data structures for many real-world computing applications and
the importance of graph analytics is ever-growing. While existing software graph processing …

Natural graphs with skewed distributions raise unique challenges to distributed graph
computation and partitioning. Existing graph-parallel systems usually use a “one-size-fits-all” …

Given a social network with diffusion probabilities as edge weights and a positive integer k,
which k nodes should be chosen for initial injection of information to maximize the influence …

Twitter, a microblogging service less than three years old, commands more than 41 million
users as of July 2009 and is growing fast. Twitter users tweet about any topic within the 140 …

Many systems on our planet shift abruptly and irreversibly from the desired state to an
undesired state when forced across a “tip** point”. Some examples are mass extinctions …

In this paper, we explore student dropout behavior in Massive Open Online Courses
(MOOC). We use as a case study a recent Coursera class from which we develop a survival …

Given the growing importance of large-scale graph analytics, there is a need to improve the
performance of graph analysis frameworks without compromising on productivity. GraphMat …