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 …

Today with the growth of spreading information, the question of” how to measure a user's
influence on others in social networks?” becomes increasingly challenging and interesting …

The emergence of social media and the enormous growth of social networks have initiated a
great amount of research in social influence analysis. In this regard, many approaches take …

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

Microblogging platforms, such as Twitter and Plurk, allow users to express feelings, discuss
ideas, and share interesting things with their friends or even strangers with similar interests …

One of the most exciting developments of the last few years has been the rise of online
social networks. The richness of this network's content provides unprecedented …

A key problem in social media is the identification of influential nodes and the analysis of
how these nodes are reflected in the graph structure evolution. Influence prediction is an …

Due to the sustained popularization of Online Social Networks (OSNs), it has become of
interest for a variety of domains of applications to correctly characterize how the behavior of …

In offline or online worlds, many social systems can be represented as signed social
networks including both positive and negative relationships. Although a variety of studies on …

Different measures have been proposed to predict whether individuals will adopt a new
behavior in online social networks, given the influence produced by their neighbors. In this …