BACKGROUND Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of death in the world. Evidence indicates that behaviours such as tobacco use can influence social networks, and that social network structures can influence behaviours. Social network analysis provides a set of analytic tools to undertake methodical analysis of social networks. We will undertake a systematic review to provide a compre...

The study of social systems shows that there is a relationship of mutual influence between social connections and individual behavior, known as homophily. In this work, we developed a methodology to allow the analysis of interests of groups of users in Twitter network, based on automatic community detection and tweets ranking. The techniques presented reveal evidences that the presence of commu...

This paper presents the new strategy for smooth content distribution in the mobile social network. We proposed a new method, hybrid mobile social network architecture scheme considered as one node of a social community called social super node with higher capacity provides the services of content distribution. We proposed methods and techniques that are introduced to set the criteria to select ...

The pervasiveness of social media has resulted in increased public involvement in key discussions about social issues, as well as creating greater affordances for individual expression and collective mobilisation. In December 2012, the rape and murder of a 23-year-old Indian student in New Delhi, India, was followed by widespread condemnation and public action organised and coordinated through ...

In this paper, we present a new method to measure the nodes’ centrality in multilayer network. The network represents nodes with different relations between them. have an initial relevance or importance value. Then, node’s is obtained according along its relationship other nodes. Many methods been proposed obtain by analyzing as whole. which, first stage, every layer would be able define of nod...

Aim of this paper is to describe an unified framework for the treatment of network data with interpretative tools of Multidimensional Data Analysis. Social Network Analysis is an analytical framework concerned with the detection and interpretation of ties patterns among social actors, while Multidimensional Data Analysis is a collection of techniques to explore different kind of statistical dat...

Social Networking accounts for a significant chunk of interest among various online activities [11]. The proclivity of being social, online, has been ingrained in us so much that we are actively producing content for the rest of the world to see or take interest in our whereabouts, our meals, our opinions, photographs etc. Yelp, seamlessly, integrates this very aspect of people in its portal. I...