We argue that users in social networks are strategic in how they post and propagate information. We propose two models — greedy and courteous — and study information propagatio...
Mangesh Gupte, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Lu Han, L...
Abstract. The need for protecting the privacy of relationships in social networks has recently been stressed in the literature. Conventional protection mechanisms in those networks...
—Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) is increasingly being applied to optimisation of problems in engineering design and scientific investigation. While readily adapted to singleo...
: Coalition formation in social networks consisting of a graph of interdependent agents allows many choices of which task to select and with whom to partner in the social network. ...
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...