The pervasive use of social media has generated unprecedented amounts of social data.
Social media provides easily an accessible platform for users to share information. Mining …

The global increase in and prevalence of social media is stimulating interest in the utilisation
of blogs for research purposes. There is, however, a significant lack of information about the …

The rise of online social media is providing a wealth of social network data. Data mining
techniques provide researchers and practitioners the tools needed to analyze large …

Identifying the infection sources in a network, including the index cases that introduce a
contagious disease into a population network, the servers that inject a computer virus into a …

A rumor spreading in a social network or a disease propagating in a community can be
modeled as an infection spreading in a network. Finding the infection source is a …

Crowds of people can solve some problems faster than individuals or small groups. A crowd
can also rapidly generate data about circumstances affecting the crowd itself. This …

Mining periodic patterns in time series databases is a daunting research task that plays a
significant role at decision making in real life applications. There are many algorithms for …

The fact that similarity breeds connections, the principle of homophily, has been well-studied
in existing sociology literature. Several studies have observed this phenomenon by …

Similarity breeds connections, the principle of homophily, has been well studied in existing
sociology literature.% Several studies have observed this phenomena by conducting …

Identifying influential individuals is a well-known approach in extracting actionable
knowledge in a network. Existing studies suggest measures to identify influential individuals …