Abstract--Microblogging sites allow users to post short messages online, offering a reliable way to communicate and to spread information quickly and efficiently; moreover, they ca...
Although extensive studies have been conducted on online social networks (OSNs), it is not clear how to characterize information propagation and social influence, two types of impo...
Abstract. The Unifying Theories of Programming underpins the development of Circus, a state-rich process algebra for refinement. We have previously presented a theory of testing fo...
The use of topological features, more specifically, the importance of an element related to its structural position is a subject widely studied. For instance, complex networks theo...
Eduardo M. R. Oliveira, Heitor S. Ramos, Antonio A...
The concept of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has had a significant impact not only on software engineering but on the analysis of an organization's business layer as we...