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CCS
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Detecting and characterizing social spam campaigns
Online social networks (OSNs) are popular collaboration and communication tools for millions of users and their friends. Unfortunately, in the wrong hands, they are also effective...
Hongyu Gao, Jun Hu, Christo Wilson, Zhichun Li, Ya...
AAAI
2012
11 years 7 months ago
Discovering Spammers in Social Networks
As the popularity of the social media increases, as evidenced in Twitter, Facebook and China’s Renren, spamming activities also picked up in numbers and variety. On social netwo...
Yin Zhu, Xiao Wang, ErHeng Zhong, Nathan Nan Liu, ...
ACSAC
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Toward worm detection in online social networks
Worms propagating in online social networking (OSN) websites have become a major security threat to both the websites and their users in recent years. Since these worms exhibit un...
Wei Xu, Fangfang Zhang, Sencun Zhu
GECCO
2008
Springer
250views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
Community detection in social networks with genetic algorithms
A new genetic algorithm to detect communities in social networks is presented. The algorithm uses a fitness function able to identify groups of nodes in the network having dense ...
Clara Pizzuti
SOCINFO
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Social Manipulation of Online Recommender Systems
Abstract. Online recommender systems are a common target of attack. Existing research has focused on automated manipulation of recommender systems through the creation of shill acc...
Juan Lang, Matt Spear, Shyhtsun Felix Wu