The expansion of the web and emergence of a large number of social networking sites
(SNS) have empowered users to easily interconnect on a shared platform. A social network …

Social media allow to fulfill perceived social needs such as connecting with friends or other
individuals with similar interests into virtual communities; they have also become essential …

Online social networks have become a fundamental part of the global online experience.
They facilitate different modes of communication and social interactions, enabling …

The second generation of World Wide Web, supplied with the platforms of Social Networks,
proves to be a revealing source of knowledge. It has led to the emergence of online …

The efficient identification of social groups with common interests is a key consideration for
viral marketing in online social networking platforms. Most existing studies in social groups …

At any given time there exist a large number of software vulnerabilities in our computing
systems, but only a fraction of them are ultimately exploited in the wild. Advanced knowledge …

Community detection in online social networks (OSNs) has attracted a great deal of attention
in recent years due to its potential prospects in applications such as recommendation …

User comments, as a large group of online short texts, are becoming increasingly prevalent
with the development of online communications. These short texts are characterized by their …

Community or group is an important structure in disciplines such as social networks, biology
gene expression, and physics systems. Community detections for different types of networks …

Almost all of the existing approaches to determining online local community are typically
deliberated like-minded users who have similar topical interests. However, such …