This survey highlights the major issues concerning privacy and security in online social networks (OSNs). Firstly, we discuss research that aims to protect user data from the various attack vantage points including other users, advertisers, third party application developers, and the online social network provider itself. Next we cover social network inference of user attributes, locating hubs,...

The proliferation of online social networks in the last decade has not stopped short of pets, and many different online platforms now exist catering to owners of various pets such as cats and dogs. These online pet social networks provide a unique opportunity to study an online social network in which a single user manages multiple user profiles, i.e. one for each pet they own. These types of m...

This survey highlights the major issues concerning privacy and security in online social networks. Firstly, we discuss research that aims to protect user data from the various attack vantage points including other users, advertisers, third party application developers, and the online social network provider itself. Next we cover social network inference of user attributes, locating hubs, and li...

The increasingly booming online social networks promote the development of online health forum. People tend to solve kinds of health issues through the Internet. However, it is still unclear what the main characteristics of friendship networks are and how the users’ attribution affect the friendship ties establishment in the online health forum. This study uses the Exponential Random Graph Mode...

this commentary explores the implications of increased social media marketing by drug manufacturers, based on findings in hyosun kim’s article of the major themes in recent food and drug administration (fda) warning letters and notices of violation regarding online direct-to-consumer promotions of pharmaceuticals. kim’s rigorous analysis of fda letters over a 10-year span highlights a relative ...

In the past, most researchers focused on the efficacy of tie-strength in various applications for both online and offline social networks. However, how tie-strength can help in the analysis of online social networks was a commonly neglected issue. The massive size and recording properties of online social networks offer the possibility to measure tie-strength objectively. In this study, we exam...

Title of dissertation: PREDICTION, EVOLUTION AND PRIVACY IN SOCIAL AND AFFILIATION NETWORKS Elena Zheleva, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011 Dissertation directed by: Professor Lise Getoor Department of Computer Science In the last few years, there has been a growing interest in studying online social and affiliation networks, leading to a new category of inference problems that consider the actor cha...

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES & RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY A Survey of Expert Finding in Academic Social Network S. Krishnaveni, K. Sathiyakumari Research Scholar, PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, India Assistant Professor, PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, India [email protected] Abstract Social networks place an important role in sharing knowledge, retrieving information from...