The main research focus of the Social Computing Laboratory at HP Labs is harvesting the collective intelligence of groups of people to optimize the interaction between users and information. HP Labs is the advanced research center for Hewlett-Packard..
A range of tools for social network analysis, including node and graph-level indices, structural distance and covariance methods, structural equivalence detection, p* modeling, random graph generation, and 2D/3D network visualization.
Die Zugehörigkeit zu bestimmten Gruppen in sozialen Netzen erlaubt anderen Webseiten Rückschlüsse auf die wahre Identität des Besuchers. An die Gruppen-Informationen gelangt eine Webseite über das "Auslesen" der Browser-Historie.
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