Online Social networks are increasingly being seen as a means of obtaining awareness of user preferences. Such awareness could be used to target goods and services at them. We cons...
Online Social Networks (OSNs) are more and more popular recently; people may through them interact with each other for the purpose of social intercourse. The client/server OSN arch...
In this paper we propose a new class of attacks that exploit advertising systems offering microtargeting capabilities in order to breach user privacy. We study the advertising syst...
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...
In this paper, we outline a privacy-preserving matching protocol for OSN (online social network) users to find their potential friends. With the proposed protocol, a logged-in use...
Visualizing large-scale online social network is a challenging yet essential task. This paper presents HiMap, a system that visualizes it by clustered graph via hierarchical group...
Lei Shi, Nan Cao, Shixia Liu, Weihong Qian, Li Tan...
Social network systems on the Internet, such MySpace and LinkedIn, are growing in popularity around the world. The level of such activity is now comparable to that associated with...
Online social network has developed significantly in recent years as a medium of communicating, sharing and disseminating information and spreading influence. Most of current resea...
We present Collabio, a social tagging game within an online social network that encourages friends to tag one another. Collabio’s approach of incentivizing members of the social...
Michael Bernstein, Desney S. Tan, Greg Smith, Mary...
A user profile on an online social network is characterized by its profile entries (keywords). In this paper, we study the relationship between semantic similarity of user keywo...