Online social networks are constantly growing in popularity. They enable users to interact
with one another and shifting their relations to the virtual world. Users utilize social media …

Today's social networks allow users to react to new contents such as images, posts and
messages in numerous ways. For example, a user, impressed by another user's post, might …

Online social networks gained their popularity from relationships users can build with each
other. These social ties play an important role in asserting users' behaviors in a social …

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 …

The spread of influence among individuals in a social network is one of the fundamental
questions in the social sciences. In this chapter we consider the main definitions of …

Identifying influential users and predicting their “network impact” on social networks have
attracted tremendous interest from both academia and industry. Various definitions of …

The discovery of influential entities in all kinds of networks (eg, social, digital, or computer)
has always been an important field of study. In recent years, Online Social Networks (OSNs) …

This thesis is concerned with predicting social influence on social networks and online
social networks in particular. We consider online social networks consisting of users on a …

Determining the importance of influence inside a network and its impact on the behaviour of
its users can provide insight into historical trends, information dispersal, and reducing the …

People interact with other people in their daily life, either for work or for personal reasons.
These interactions are often complex. Thus, interactions that an individual has with other …