Social Network Analytics

Overview

SONA aims to analyze user behaviors within online social networks, study security and privacy issues, design scalable analytics infrastructure, and build interesting social networking applications.

People

  • Guanling Chen, Faculty
  • Nan Li
  • Rajesh Kaveti
  • Stephen Brinton

Publications

  • Geographic Community Analysis for Mobile Social Networks
    Nan Li and Guanling Chen
    Workshop on Social Networks, Applications, and Systems (SNAS), Boston, MA, August 2009
  • Analysis of a Location-Based Social Network
    Nan Li and Guanling Chen
    International Symposium on Social Intelligence and Networking (SIN), Vancouver, Canada, August 2009.
  • MPCS: Mobile-Phone Based Patient Compliance System for Chronic Illness Care
    Guanling Chen, Bo Yan, Minho Shin, David Kotz, and Ethan Berk
    Workshop on Ubiquitous Mobile Healthcare Applications (MobiCare), Toronto, Canada, July 2009.
  • Multi-Layer Friendship Modeling for Location-based Mobile Social Networks
    Nan Li and Guanling Chen
    International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous), Toronto, Canada, July 2009.
  • Analyzing Privacy Designs of Mobile Social Networking Applications
    Guanling Chen and Faruq Rahman
    IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Trust, Security and Privacy for Pervasive Applications (TSP). Shanghai, China, December 2008.