Social networks have attracted a great deal of attention and have in fact important
information vectors that have changed the way we produce, consume and diffuse …

Group plays an important role in social society. Much of the world's decision or work is done
by groups and teams. A group's decision should be made based on most of the members in …

In this paper, we propose an investigation of negative reviews and define the profile of
negative influencers in Yelp. The methodology adopted to achieve this goal consists of two …

Rumormongers spread negative information throughout the social network, which may even
lead to panic or unrest. Rumor should be blocked by spreading positive information from …

In the last few years, many closed social networks such as WhatsAPP and WeChat have
emerged to cater for people's growing demand of privacy and independence. In a closed …

Microblogging networks have gained popularity in recent years as a platform enabling
expressions of human emotions, through which users can conveniently produce contents on …

An echo chamber effect describes the situation in which opinions are amplified by
communication and repetition inside a relatively closed social system. In this article, we will …

Social networks influence decision-making in agricultural landscapes by affecting how
farmers access knowledge and resources. However, researchers ignore the disparate …

The well-known influence maximization problem (IM) aims at maximizing the influence of
one information cascade in a social network by selecting appropriate seed users prior to the …

In this paper, we introduce the concept of k-bridge (ie, a user who connects k sub-networks
of the same network or k networks of a multi-network scenario) and propose an algorithm for …