A new direction in social network analysis: Online social network analysis problems and applications

U Can, B Alatas - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
The use of online social networks has made significant progress in recent years as the use
of the Internet has become widespread worldwide as the technological infrastructure and the …

Overlapping communities in dynamic networks: their detection and mobile applications

NP Nguyen, TN Dinh, S Tokala, MT Thai - Proceedings of the 17th …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Many practical problems on Mobile networking, such as routing strategies in MANETs,
sensor reprogramming in WSNs and worm containment in online social networks (OSNs) …

To shut them up or to clarify: Restraining the spread of rumors in online social networks

S Wen, J Jiang, Y Xiang, S Yu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Restraining the spread of rumors in online social networks (OSNs) has long been an
important but difficult problem to be addressed. Currently, there are mainly two types of …

Minimizing influence of rumors by blockers on social networks: algorithms and analysis

R Yan, D Li, W Wu, DZ Du… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Online social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Wechat have become major social
tools. The users can not only keep in touch with family and friends, but also send and share …

A study of XSS worm propagation and detection mechanisms in online social networks

MR Faghani, UT Nguyen - IEEE transactions on information …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present analytical models and simulation results that characterize the impacts of the
following factors on the propagation of cross-site scripting (XSS) worms in online social …

Why approximate when you can get the exact? Optimal targeted viral marketing at scale

X Li, JD Smith, TN Dinh, MT Thai - IEEE INFOCOM 2017-IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the most central problems in viral marketing is Influence Maximization (IM), which
finds a set of k seed users who can influence the maximum number of users in online social …

Scalable bicriteria algorithms for the threshold activation problem in online social networks

A Kuhnle, T Pan, MA Alim… - IEEE INFOCOM 2017-IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the Threshold Activation Problem (TAP): given social network G and positive
threshold T, find a minimum-size seed set A that can trigger expected activation of at least T …

Vulnerability of clustering under node failure in complex networks

A Kuhnle, NP Nguyen, TN Dinh, MT Thai - Social Network Analysis and …, 2017 - Springer
Robustness in response to unexpected events is always desirable for real-world networks.
To improve the robustness of any networked system, it is important to analyze vulnerability to …

CloudShield: Efficient anti-malware smartphone patching with a P2P network on the cloud

MV Barbera, S Kosta, J Stefa, P Hui… - 2012 IEEE 12th …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The battery limits of today smartphones require a solution. In the scientific community it is
believed that a promising way of prolonging battery life is to offload mobile computation to …

社交网络中的隐私保护研究综述

姚瑞欣, 李晖, 曹进 - 网络与信息安全学报, 2016 - infocomm-journal.com
随着信息技术的发展, 社交网络逐渐成为人们沟通的主要方式, 而敏感信息暴露在开放的社交
网络中所导致的多种隐私信息泄露问题也引起了人们的日益关注. 首先, 介绍了社交网络及隐私 …