Title
Blind Spots: Unveiling users' true willingness in online social networks
Abstract
Although online social networks reflect real world social relationships, in many cases, online data is too scarce or implicit to reveal a user's true willingness. This causes the Blind Spot problem in socially-rendered willingness inference systems. Blind spots are the undervalued online contacts in willingness inference because of insufficient explicit evidences. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time to introduce and address the blind spot problem. In this paper, we propose a scheme to detect blind spots, by contradicting explicit evidences and implicit inferences. The proposed scheme uses interaction history as the explicit evidence, and social circles for implicit inference. Real world experiments and surveys demonstrate that our scheme can detect blind spots.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/GLOCOM.2012.6503420
GLOBECOM
Keywords
Field
DocType
socially-rendered willingness inference system,user true willingness,user interfaces,inference mechanisms,blind spot problem,social relationship,online social network,implicit inference,explicit evidence,social networking (online),online contact
Interaction history,Data science,Internet privacy,Social relationship,Social network,Computer science,Inference,Computer network,Blind spot
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1930-529X E-ISBN : 978-1-4673-0919-6
978-1-4673-0919-6
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
17
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Di Wang11337143.48
Xinxin Liu21518.79
Xiaolin Li340537.36