The emerging social media with inherent capabilities seems to be gaining edge over
comprehensiveness, diversity and wisdom, nevertheless its security and trustworthiness …

IoT-based systems are complex and dynamic aggregations of entities (Smart Objects) which
usually lack decentralized control. Swarm Intelligence systems are decentralized, self …

Abstract Online Social Network's (OSN) considered a spark that burst the Big Data era. The
unfolding of every event, breaking new or trend flows in real time inside OSN triggering a …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) is emerging as a ubiquitous and dense ecosystem in
which novel devices and smart objects interoperate to establish smart cities, smart buildings …

How to comprehensively explore, improve and deploy multimedia social networks (MSNs)
has become a hot topic in the era of emerging pervasive mobile multimedia. More and more …

Purpose This study explores the effects of interpersonal determinants (tie strength and
homophily) and informational determinants (source trustworthiness and customer …

Graph theory can be applied to ecological questions in many ways, and more insights can
be gained by expanding the range of graph theoretical concepts applied to a specific …

An important issue in Online Social Networks consists of the capability to generate useful
recommendations for users, as peers to contact in order to establish friendships and …

IoT technology and the widespread usage of public networking platforms and apps also
made it possible to use data mining in extracting useful perspectives from unorganised …

Centrality metrics are a popular tool in Network Science to identify important nodes within a
graph. We introduce the Potential Gain as a centrality measure that unifies many walk-based …