—The wide variety of software development tools available today have a great potential to improve the way developers make software, but that potential goes unfulfilled when deve...
Current computer involvement in adolescent social networks (youth between the ages of 11 and 17) provides new opportunities to study group dynamics, interactions amongst peers, an...
Juan Fernando Mancilla-Caceres, Wen Pu, Eyal Amir,...
—It is well known that Online Social Networks (OSNs) are vulnerable to privacy leakages, whereby specific information about a user (political affiliation, sexual orientation, g...
Ratan Dey, Cong Tang, Keith W. Ross, Nitesh Saxena
—In today’s Internet, online social networks (OSNs) play an important role in informing users about content. At the same time, mobile devices provide ubiquitous access to this ...
Francesco Malandrino, Maciej Kurant, Athina Markop...
—Distributed systems without trusted identities are particularly vulnerable to sybil attacks, where an adversary creates multiple bogus identities to compromise the running of th...
—Location sharing is a fundamental component of mobile online social networks (mOSNs), which also raises significant privacy concerns. The mOSNs collect a large amount of locati...
Abstract—Despite recent efforts to characterize complex networks such as citation graphs or online social networks (OSNs), little attention has been given to developing tools tha...
Bruno F. Ribeiro, Pinghui Wang, Fabricio Murai, Do...
We pose a fundamental question in understanding how to identify and design successful communities: What factors predict whether a community will grow and survive in the long term?...
It is well known that different types of social ties have essentially different influence between people. However, users in online social networks rarely categorize their contact...
Anonymity is one of the main virtues of the Internet, as it protects privacy and enables users to express opinions more freely. However, anonymity hinders the assessment of the ve...
Michael Sirivianos, Kyungbaek Kim, Jian Wei Gan, X...