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The extensive dissemination of false information in social networks affects netizen’s social lives, morals, and behaviours. When a neighbour expresses strong emotions (e.g., fear, anger, excitement) based on a false statement, these emotions can ...

Trust relationship plays an important role in online shopping, recommendation systems, internet of things, etc. The problem of trust evaluation among users in online social network (OSN) has attracted much attention, and has become a hot issue in the ...

• We proposed a general end-to-end neural network to destroy robust steganography in OSN.

In recent years, some robust steganography approaches for covert transmission in online social networks (OSNs) have been proposed. Some existing image algorithms, such as watermarking removal methods, have been developed to remove the ...

YouTube sells advertisements on the posted videos, which in turn enables the content creators to monetize their videos. As an unintended consequence, this has proliferated various illegal activities such as artificial boosting of views, likes, comments, ...

The popularity of Twitter has fostered the emergence of various fraudulent user activities - one such activity is to artificially bolster the social reputation of Twitter profiles by gaining a large number of followers within a short time span. Many ...

Ubiquitous Online Social Networks (OSN)s play a vital role in information creation, propagation and consumption. Given the recent multiplicity of OSNs with specially accumulated knowledge, integration partnerships are formed (without regard to ...

As wireless network has developed rapidly in recent years, especially with the maturity and wide application of 5G wireless system, millions of mobile users have been able to quickly exchange large amounts of data in social networks. Despite the ...

With the exponential expansion of online social networks (OSNs), an extensive research on information diffusion in OSNs has been emerged in recent years. One of the key research is influence maximization (IM). IM is a problem to find a seed set ...

With the rise in popularity of social media platforms like Twitter, having higher influence on these platforms has a greater value attached to it, since it has the power to influence many decisions in the form of brand promotions and shaping opinions. ...

The rapid proliferation and extensive use of online social networks (OSNs) like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc., has attracted the attention of academia and industry, since these networks store massive information in them. But, acquiring data from ...

The popularity of online social networks like Facebook and Twitter has become the regular way of communication and interaction. Due to the popularity of such networks, the attackers try to reveal suspicious behaviour in the form of fake profile. To stop ...

Social bots is fast becoming a serious security threat to online social networks (OSNs). Social bots are automated software tools able to execute malicious activities in OSNs systems in an automated fashion. It can perform auto-sharing and posting, ...

The emergence of low-cost thermographic cameras for mobile devices provides users with new practical and creative prospects. While recent work has investigated how novices use thermal cameras for energy auditing tasks in structured activities, open ...

Online social networks (OSNs) are structures that help users to interact, exchange, and propagate new ideas. The identification of the influential users in OSNs is a significant process for accelerating the propagation of information that includes ...

Human activities can be captured in real time using sensors. The rapid growth in sensing technology and its integration with smartphones has instigated a new paradigm of connecting sensors with social networks. These days, users actively migrate their ...

Internet traffic is increasingly dominated by user-generated content, predominantly by multimedia content (photos and videos). The content is primarily shared in online social networks (OSNs) such as Pinterest, Twitter, and Facebook. In this paper, we ...

Generalised knowledge allows us to know a lot about something/somebody we do not directly know: this is a great cognitive advantage. At a social level this means that I can know a lot of things on people that I never met; it is social 'prejudice' with ...

Display Omitted Virtual interactivity positively affects brand awareness.Reward for activities positively affects brand awareness.System quality positively affects brand awareness.Information quality positively affects brand awareness.Brand awareness ...

In the social media era, the ever-increasing utility of Online Social Networks (OSN) services provide a variety of benefits to users, organizations, and service providers. However, OSN services also introduce new threats and privacy issues regarding the ...

Although Online Social Network (OSN) services offer users a variety of benefits, they also bring new threats and privacy issues to the community. In this paper, we first define the data types in OSN services and the states of shared data with respect to ...