Online social networks play a major role in the spread of information at very large scale. A lot
of effort have been made in order to understand this phenomenon, ranging from popular …

Abstract Information dissemination has changed rapidly in recent years with the emergence
of social media which provides online platforms for people worldwide to share their …

Social media analytics has drawn new quantitative insights of human activity patterns. Many
applications of social media analytics, from pandemic prediction to earthquake response …

The smart city makes use of information technology to integrate city systems and functions to
optimize city management and services. In this paper, we treat the smart city as a Cyber …

Social media has become the fulcrum of all forms of communication. Classifying social texts
such as fake news, rumour, sarcasm, etc. has gained significant attention. The surface-level …

In this article, based on a model of epidemic spreading, we explore the knowledge diffusion
process with an innovative mechanism for complex networks by considering time-varying …

Methods and systems generally include determining coordinated activity in social media
movements on a social media channel. The method includes identifying a plurality of …

Identification of important actors in social networks is a hard task but with various interesting
applications such as in information recommendation or for viral marketing. Existing centrality …

As online social networks continue to be commonly used for the dissemination of information
to the public, understanding the phenomena that govern information diffusion is crucial for …

The prediction of opinion distribution in real-world scenarios represents a major scientific
challenge for current social networks analysis. In terms of electoral forecasting, we find …