The huge size of online social networks (OSNs) makes it prohibitively expensive to precisely measure any properties which require the knowledge of the entire graph. To estimate the...
Abstract--In this paper, we propose a game-theoretic mechanism to encourage truthful data sharing for distributed data mining. Our proposed mechanism uses the classic VickreyClarke...
Sharing life-log information in a social community has many advantages, both for the user and society. But sharing any type of personal information is a threat to privacy. In parti...
This paper proposes that social network data should be assumed public but treated private. Assuming this rather confusing requirement means that anonymity models such as kanonymity...
As the value of reputation systems is widely recognized, the incentive to manipulate such systems is rapidly growing. We propose TAUCA, a scheme that identifies malicious users and...