User characterization for online social networks

T Tuna, E Akbas, A Aksoy, MA Canbaz… - Social Network Analysis …, 2016 - Springer
Online social network analysis has attracted great attention with a vast number of users
sharing information and availability of APIs that help to crawl online social network data. In …

A case study of Israeli higher-education institutes sharing scholarly information with the community via social networks

A Forkosh-Baruch, A Hershkovitz - The internet and higher education, 2012 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study is to empirically examine cases in which Social Networking Sites
(SNS) are being utilized for scholarly purposes by higher-education institutes in Israel. The …

Reliable online social network data collection

FB Abdesslem, I Parris, T Henderson - Computational social networks …, 2012 - Springer
Large quantities of information are shared through online social networks, making them
attractive sources of data for social network research. When studying the usage of online …

TOSS: Traffic offloading by social network service-based opportunistic sharing in mobile social networks

X Wang, M Chen, Z Han, DO Wu… - IEEE INFOCOM 2014 …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ever increasing traffic demand becomes a serious concern of mobile network operators.
To solve this traffic explosion problem, there have been many efforts to offload the traffic from …

Managing social contents in decentralized online social networks: a survey

B Guidi, M Conti, A Passarella, L Ricci - Online Social Networks and Media, 2018 - Elsevier
The widespread diffusion of Online Social Networks has given unforeseen opportunities for
their users to share contents and mutually interact. However, current platforms offer …

Comparing Twitter and Facebook user behavior: Privacy and other aspects

F Buccafurri, G Lax, S Nicolazzo, A Nocera - Computers in human behavior, 2015 - Elsevier
Understanding online-social-network (OSN) user behavior is an important challenge in the
field of social network analysis, as OSNs play a significant role in people's daily lives. So far …

Fractal intelligent privacy protection in online social network using attribute-based encryption schemes

W Wei, S Liu, W Li, D Du - IEEE Transactions on Computational …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While the online social network (OSN) has brought much convenience to users, there are
still some serious problems, such as personal privacy leaks. Today, OSN security and …

Event detection system based on user behavior changes in online social networks: Case of the covid-19 pandemic

RL Rosa, MJ De Silva, DH Silva, MS Ayub… - Ieee …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
People use Online Social Networks (OSNs) to express their opinions and feelings about
many topics. Depending on the nature of an event and its dissemination rate in OSNs, and …

From technological networks to social networks

KC Chen, M Chiang, HV Poor - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Social networks overlaid on technological networks account for a significant fraction of
Internet use. Through graph theoretic and functionality models, this paper examines social …

Social data offloading in D2D-enhanced cellular networks by network formation games

T Wang, Y Sun, L Song, Z Han - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, cellular networks have become severely overloaded by social-based services,
such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, in which thousands of clients subscribe to a …