Research on social networks has exploded over the last decade. To a large extent, this has
been fueled by the spectacular growth of social media and online social networking sites …

With the soaring development of large scale online social networks, online information
sharing is becoming ubiquitous everyday. Various information is propagating through online …

Information diffusion in social networks is emerging as a promising solution to successful
viral marketing, which relies on the effective and efficient identification of a set of nodes with …

In modern online social networks, each user is typically able to provide a value to indicate
how trustworthy their direct friends are. Inferring such a value of social trust between any pair …

Assessing trust in online social networks (OSNs) is critical for many applications such as
online marketing and network security. It is a challenging problem, however, due to the …

Assessing multi-hop interpersonal trust in online social networks (OSNs) is critical for many
social network applications such as online marketing but challenging due to the difficulties of …

The majority of influence maximization (IM) studies focus on targeting influential seeders to
trigger substantial information spread in social networks. In this paper, we consider a new …

With recent advances in mobile and sensor technologies, a large amount of efforts have
been made on developing intelligent applications for taxi drivers, which provide beneficial …

Assessing the trust between users in a trust social network (TSN) isa critical issue in many
applications, eg, film recommendation, spam detection, and online lending. Despite of …

As an emerging social dynamic system, geo-social network can be used to facilitate viral
marketing through the wide spread of targeted advertising. However, unlike traditional …