Discovering content and stories in movies is one of the most important concepts in research studies. To consider how to efficiently determine the relationships between characters, we focus on the appearance of each character during movie play and analyze the characters’ relationships to build a CoCharNet, a social network, to determine characters’ relationships in a movie. In this paper, we pro...

Preserving privacy while publishing social network data has become a serious issue with the rapid growth of Social Networks. In this work, we propose a perturbation based approach for privacy preserving publication of social network graphs and evaluate the utility aspect of our proposed method using real world dataset.

Traditionally, social network analyses are applied to data from a particular social domain. With the advent of online social networks such as Facebook, we observe an aggregate of various social domains resulting in a layered mix of professional contacts, family ties, and different circles. These aggregates dilute the community structure. We provide a method for delayering social networks accord...

Increasing use of online social network sites by organizations and their growing tendencies to establish an intraorganizational social network necessitates academic attention as to how these social networks can affect organizational outcomes. To fill this gap by a margin, this paper will theorize and propose ways in which corporate social networks are able to affect the perceived organizational...