Online social networks are now a popular way for users to connect, express themselves, and
share content. Users in today's online social networks often post a profile, consisting of …

In the attribute inference problem, we aim to infer users' private attributes (eg, locations,
sexual orientation, and interests) using their public data in online social networks. State-of …

Users in online social networks play a variety of social roles and statuses. For example,
users in Twitter can be represented as advertiser, content contributor, information receiver …

Online social networks pose an interesting problem: how to best characterize the different
classes of user behavior. Traditionally, user behavior characterization methods, based on …

It is well known that different types of social ties have essentially different influence on
people. However, users in online social networks rarely categorize their contacts into" …

People's personal social networks are big and cluttered, and currently there is no good way
to automatically organize them. Social networking sites allow users to manually categorize …

The Internet has become a rich and large repository of information about us as individuals.
Anything from the links and text on a user's homepage to the mailing lists the user …

Demographics are widely used in marketing to characterize different types of customers.
However, in practice, demographic information such as age, gender, and location is usually …

The popular social networking website Facebook exposes a" public view" of user profiles to
search engines which includes eight of the user's friendship links. We examine what …

With the growing popularity of microblogging services such as Twitter in recent years, an
increasing number of users are using these services in their daily lives. The huge volume of …