Social Network Analysis has been introduced to study the properties of Online Social
Networks for a wide range of real life applications. In this paper, we propose a novel …

The spreading of information is of crucial importance for the modern information society.
While we still receive information from mass media and other non-personalized sources …

Online Social Networks (OSN) have become an integral part of human life in the world
today. Social media applications have permeated almost every aspect of our lives. The …

Influence propagation is studied in various contexts with significant practical potential
applications such as viral marketing, monitoring people opinions, social psychology analysis …

Influence plays an important role in a physical world community. There are people, the
influential, that are considered authorities in certain topics by the rest of the community. They …

With the growing popularity of online social media, identifying influential users in these
social networks has become very popular. Existing works have studied user attributes …

Online social networks have seen an exponential growth in number of users and activities
recently. The rapid proliferation of online social networks provides rich data and infinite …

Social networks and microblogging systems play a fundamental role in the diffusion of
information. The information, from different sources, reaches each user through multiple …

Influence is a complex and subtle force that governs social dynamics and user behaviors.
Understanding how users influence each other can benefit various applications, eg, viral …

Identifying influential nodes and measure the influence of nodes in social networks, has
been inspired by analogies between social behavior and statistical mechanics. Social …