Leveraging Networking Groups for Social Shopping with Special Reference to Instagram

Linking Shopping and Social Networking: Approaches to Social Shopping

LENS: LEveraging anti-social Networking against Spam

Spam is still an open problem from the network operator’s perspective. The common state-of-the-art strategy to place filters against spam is at the recipient’s edge. Although this strategy largely solves the spam problem from the user’s perspective – false positives/negatives may still exist – it cannot prevent spam from traversing the Internet. Consequently, with nowadays around 200 billion sp...

Leveraging Social Networking Sites to Acquire Rich Task Structure

Task management is a core part of knowledge work. However, intelligent assistance for task management is hampered be the lack of large amounts of structured knowledge about user tasks. In this paper, we present a novel approach, Social Task Networks, for obtaining rich user contributed task information by integrating task management with social networking sites.

A Model of Forum Shopping, with Special Reference to Standard Setting Organizations∗

Abstract Owners of intellectual property or mere sponsors of an idea (e.g., authors, security issuers, sponsors of standards) often need to persuade potential buyers or adopters of the worth of their property or idea. To this purpose, they often resort to more or less independent certifiers. This paper analyzes the strategic choice of certifiers in rival and non-rival situations in a three-stag...

The Role of Virtual Communities as Shopping Reference Groups

Virtual communities are self-selecting groups of individuals engaged in sustained computer-mediated interactions around common interests or goals, governed by shared norms and values, and serving individual and shared needs. This work proposes and empirically tests the model of social influence on individual shopping preferences in the context of virtual communities. This work proposed and supp...