The pervasive use of social media has grown to over two billion users to date, and is commonly utilized as a means to share information and shape world events. Evidence suggests that passive social media usage (i.e., viewing without taking action) has an impact on the user's perspective. This empirical influence over perspective could have significant impact on social events. Therefore, it is i...

Following the Bayesian communication learning paradigm, we propose a finite population learning concept to capture the level of information aggregation in any given network, where agents are allowed to communicate with neighbors repeatedly before making a single decision. This concept helps determine the occurrence of effective information aggregation in a finite network and reveals explicit in...

This paper seeks to explore the intentional creation of social capital by two communities of entrepreneurs, with the aim of shedding light over the nature of trust and cooperation between competing economic agents. In doing so, this investigation will compare the institutions created in late Victorian England and Postbellum America to offer a reinterpretation of small scale producer capitalism ...

In this paper we investigate a new computing paradigm, called SocialCloud, in which computing nodes are governed by social ties driven from a bootstrapping trustpossessing social graph. We investigate how this paradigm differs from existing computing paradigms, such as grid computing and the conventional cloud computing paradigms. We show that incentives to adopt this paradigm are intuitive and...

Text clustering is one of the key research areas in data mining. k-medoids algorithm is a classical division algorithm, and can solve the problem of isolated points, But it often converges to local optimum. This article presents a improved social evolutionary programming(K-medoids Social Evolutionary Programming,KSEP). The algorithm is the k-medoids algorithm as the main cognitive reasoning alg...

Social media has led to paradigm shifts in ways people work and do business, interact and socialize, learn and obtain knowledge. So much so that social media has established itself as an important spatial extension of this nation’s historicity and challenges. Regardless of the enabling reputation and recommendation features through social networks embedded in the social media system, the overfl...