Social networks are gaining an increasing popularity on the internet and are becoming a
critical media for business and marketing. Hence, it is important to identify the key users that …

In recent years, social networks have attracted many users' interests. People express their
daily experiences and emotions through social networks and become aware of others …

Social networks are gaining an increasing popularity on the Internet, with tens of millions of
registered users and an amount of exchanged contents accounting for a large fraction of the …

After the impressive diffusion of social media and microblogging websites of the last few
years, the identification of users having the capability of influencing other users' choices is …

Online social networking is deeply interleaved in today's lifestyle. People come together and
build communities to share thoughts, offer suggestions, exchange information, ideas, and …

The popularity of online shopping highlights the need for targeted marketing. Instead of
broadcasting advertisement to an entire online community, targeted marketing aims at key …

Social networks are usually made of users linked by friendship, which can be dependent on
(or influenced by) user characteristics (eg, connectivity, centrality, weight, importance …

Nowadays social network services have been popularly used in electronic commerce
systems. Users on the social network can develop different relationships based on their …

Social networks have become an increasingly common abstraction to capture the
interactions of individual users in a number of everyday activities and applications. As a …

High influential users are playing an important role in promoting information propagation in
social media. Thus, it has been a very interesting problem to identify influential users in …