In order to study the effects of Online Social Network (OSN) activity on real-world offline
events, researchers need access to OSN data, the reliability of which has particular …

Although there are innumerable complex systems and therefore such a large number of
networks, the focus of this book is social networks. A social network contains individuals as …

All activities on social media evolve with time. Consequently, being able to understand and
engineer social dynamics, the way how various properties of social media evolve, is a …

Despite the great amount of research done in the Online Social Networks (OSNs) field, only
few works have investigated the use of multimedia data in such realm. Instead, it is the …

Social network analysis (SNA) is a multidisciplinary field dedicated to the analysis and
modeling of relations and diffusion processes among various objects in nature and society …

Abstract Online Social Networks (OSNs) have been widely adopted as a means of news
dissemination, event reporting, opinion expression and discussion. As a result, news and …

Social media such as blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr enables people of all
walks of life to express their thoughts, voice their opinions, and connect to each other more …

Social network analysis has emerged as a set of methods for the analysis of social structures
and uncovering the patterning of interactions among the entities. In the past, social network …

Social media users exhibit repetitive behavior patterns that can be leveraged to predict
trends in network evolution. Our hypothesis is that these patterns exhibit greater consistency …

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--------------------Recent years have seen an explosive growth of various online communities …