SNS, namely social networking sites, has become one of the most effective and fast channels of information diffusion and dissemination. As an influential way of online marketing, SNS has been increasingly used by tourism organizations and enterprises to shape their destination image. On the...

We consider a social network from which one observes not only network structure (i.e., nodes and edges) but also a set of labels (or tags, keywords) for each node (or user). These labels are self-created and closely related to the user's career status, life style, personal interests, and many...

Large-scale directed social network data often involve degree heterogeneity, reciprocity, and transitivity properties. A sensible network generating model should take these features into consideration. To this end, we propose a popularity scaled latent space model for the large-scale directed...

In social network analysis, logistic regression models have been widely used to establish the relationship between the response variable and covariates. However, such models often require the network relationships to be mutually independent, after controlling for a set of covariates. To assess...

In social network analysis, logistic regression models have been widely used to establish the relationship between the response variable and covariates. However, such models often require the network relationships to be mutually independent, after controlling for a set of covariates. To assess...