“Phone a friend” - three challenging cases, one invaluable friend

Value of a friend, a friend of your friend, and a friend of the friend of your friend: Social discounting in n degrees of separation

Jones and Rachlin (2008) found that the amount of money a person is willing to forgo in order to give $75 to another person decreased as a hyperbolic function of perceived social distance, in the same way as occurs in intertemporal choice. This study aimed to extend this finding to the domain of social networks, in which social distance is defined by degrees of separation. A total of 334 partic...

Route Challenging Scheme Using Friend Based Rating in MANETs

Security and Route identification are the major challenges in MANETs. Existing neighbour based routing algorithms provide route based on the quantity of data transferred [1] which may result in congestion. This is because the route having higher amount of transaction is preferred every time. In this paper we propose a Friend Based Routing algorithm [FBRA] for solving this problem. Here, the app...

Takeshi Matsuura: A Truly Inspirational Friend and Membrane Scientist

Funeral for a friend.

Friend Suggestion and Friend Browsing in Web 2.0 Applications

Web 2.0 and social network applications have become increasingly popular. It is important for these applications to help users in maintaining their social networks by providing functions on friend suggestion and friend browsing. However, little study in this area has been reported in the literature. This paper proposes the design of two modules for friend suggestion and friend browsing. The fir...