Massive amounts of data in social networks have made researchers look for ways to display a summary of the information provided and extract knowledge from them. One of the new approaches to describe knowledge of the social network is through a concise structure called conceptual view. In order to build this view, it is first needed to extract conceptual links from the intended network. However,...

the virtual space of internet social networks is one of the most important devices to exert the influence of globalization. this virtual space creates a vast quantity of information and meaning representations. faced with this space and the profusion of sources, people experience suspension (i.e. confusion and indecision) in shaping their identity. the loss of the concepts of time and place and...

Influence maximization is the problem of finding a small set of most influential nodes in a social network so that their aggregated influence in the network is maximized. In this paper, we study influence maximization in the linear threshold model, one of the important models formalizing the behavior of influence propagation in social networks. We first show that computing exact influence in ge...

While social media offers freedom of self-expression, abusive language carry significant negative impact. Driven by the importance issue, research in automated detection has witnessed growth and improvement. However, these models display a reliance on strongly indicative keywords, such as slurs profanity. This means that they can falsely (1a) miss abuse without keywords or (1b) flag non-abuse w...

Online Social Networks (OSN) becomes the largest infrastructure for social interactions like: making relationship, sharing personal experiences and service delivery. Nowadays social networks have been widely welcomed by people. Most of the researches about managing privacy protection within social networks sites (SNS), observes users as owner of their information. However, individuals cannot co...

This paper explores various Social Network Analysis (SNA) techniques in order to identify a range of potentially ‘important’ members of Islamic Networks within Dark Web Forums. For this experiment, we conducted our investigation on five forums collected in previous work as part of the Dark Web Forum portal and built upon the tool support created in our previous research in order to visualise an...

abstract forecasting electrical energy demand and consumption is one of the important decision-making tools in distributing companies for making contracts scheduling and purchasing electrical energy. this paper studies load consumption modeling in hamedan city province distribution network by applying esn neural network. weather forecasting data such as minimum day temperature, average day temp...