—Social network information is now being used in ways for which it may have not been originally intended. In particular, increased use of smartphones capable of running applicati...
—We study a new application of threshold-based secret sharing in a distributed online social network (DOSN), where users need a means to back up and recover their private keys in...
Le-Hung Vu, Karl Aberer, Sonja Buchegger, Anwitama...
The current set of social networking platforms, e.g. Facebook and MySpace, has created a new class of Internet applications called social software. These systems focus on leveragi...
E. Michael Maximilien, Tyrone Grandison, Kun Liu, ...
With the recent surge of social networks such as Facebook, new forms of recommendations have become possible – recommendations that rely on one’s social connections in order t...
Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Aleksandra Korolova, Atish...
The rising popularity of Web 2.0, such as blogs, forums, online calendars/diaries, etc., makes users more interested in keeping their data on the Web. Sharing of such data could m...