Say you are looking for information about a particular person. A search engine returns many pages for that person's name but which pages are about the person you care about, ...
Influence maximization is the problem of finding a small subset of nodes (seed nodes) in a social network that could maximize the spread of influence. In this paper, we study the ...
The Target Set Selection problem proposed by Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos, gives a nice clean combinatorial formulation for many problems arising in economy, sociology, and medicin...
Oren Ben-Zwi, Danny Hermelin, Daniel Lokshtanov, I...
The advantages that Internet as a new technology offers to business and individuals can't be fully exploited without taking under consideration a number of social issues that...
In this work we present our friend-in-the-middle attacks on SNSs and how it can be used to harvest social data in an automated fashion. This social data can then be exploited for ...
Marcus Huber, Martin Mulazzani, Edgar Weippl, Gerh...