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This paper focuses on the community analysis of conference participants using their face-to-face contacts, visited talks, and tracks in a social and ubiquitous conferencing scenario. We consider human face-to-face contacts and perform a dynamic analysis of the number of contacts and their lengths. On these dimensions, we specifically investigate user-interaction and community structure according to different special interest groups during a conference. Additionally, using the community information, we examine different roles and their characteristic elements.
The analysis is grounded using real-world conference data capturing community information about participants and their face-to-face contacts. The analysis results indicate, that the face-to-face contacts show inherent community structure grounded using the special interest groups. Furthermore, we provide individual and community-level properties, traces of different behavioral patterns, and characteristic (role) profiles.
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Atzmueller, M., Doerfel, S., Hotho, A., Mitzlaff, F., Stumme, G. (2012). Face-to-Face Contacts at a Conference: Dynamics of Communities and Roles. In: Atzmueller, M., Chin, A., Helic, D., Hotho, A. (eds) Modeling and Mining Ubiquitous Social Media. MUSE MSM 2011 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7472. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33684-3_2
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