Social network platforms have rapidly changed the way that people communicate and
interact. They have enabled the establishment of, and participation in, digital communities as …

Peer-to-peer technologies have proven their strength in large-scale resource sharing and
data transfer. Such systems, however, still need to address a variety of issues, including …

Abstract Online Social Networks (OSNs) are becoming more and more popular on the Web.
Distributed Online Social Networks (DOSNs) are OSNs which do not exploit a central server …

Abstract Online Social Networks (OSNs) are the most popular applications in todays Internet
and they have changed the way people interact with each other. Understanding the …

While direct social ties have been intensely studied in the context of computer-mediated
social networks, indirect ties (eg, friends of friends) have seen little attention. Yet in real life …

Distributed social networking services show promise to solve data ownership and privacy
problems associated with centralized approaches. Smartphones could be used for hosting …

Opportunistic communication, off-loading, and decentrlaized distribution have been
proposed as a means of cost efficient disseminating content when users are geographically …

Abstract Online Social Networks (OSNs) are becoming more and more popular in today's
Internet. Distributed Online Social Networks (DOSNs), are OSNs which do not exploit a …

Abstract Distributed Online Social Networks (DOSNs) have recently been proposed to grant
users more control over the data they share with the other users. Indeed, in contrast to …

In a decentralized storage system, agents replicate each other's data to increase availability.
Compared to organizationally centralized solutions, such as cloud storage, a decentralized …