Online social networks: threats and solutions

M Fire, R Goldschmidt, Y Elovici - … Communications Surveys & …, 2014‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many online social network (OSN) users are unaware of the numerous security risks that
exist in these networks, including privacy violations, identity theft, and sexual harassment …

Target defense against link-prediction-based attacks via evolutionary perturbations

S Yu, M Zhao, C Fu, J Zheng, H Huang… - … on Knowledge and …, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In social networks, by removing some target-sensitive links, privacy protection might be
achieved. However, some hidden links can still be re-observed by link prediction methods …

Computationally efficient link prediction in a variety of social networks

M Fire, L Tenenboim-Chekina, R Puzis… - ACM Transactions on …, 2014‏ - dl.acm.org
Online social networking sites have become increasingly popular over the last few years. As
a result, new interdisciplinary research directions have emerged in which social network …

Relationship prediction in dynamic heterogeneous information networks

A Milani Fard, E Bagheri, K Wang - … on IR Research, ECIR 2019, Cologne …, 2019‏ - Springer
Most real-world information networks, such as social networks, are heterogeneous and as
such, relationships in these networks can be of different types and hence carry differing …

Towards link inference attack against network structure perturbation

X **an, T Wu, Y Liu, W Wang, C Wang, G Xu… - Knowledge-Based …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The increasing popularity and diversity of social media sites have resulted in an emergent
number of available social networks. These social networks are now the source of …

Differentially private demand side management for incentivized dynamic pricing in smart grid

MU Hassan, MH Rehmani, JT Du… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to efficiently provide demand side management (DSM) in smart grid, carrying out
pricing on the basis of real-time energy usage is considered to be the most vital tool …

How to hide one's relationships from link prediction algorithms

M Waniek, K Zhou, Y Vorobeychik, E Moro… - Scientific reports, 2019‏ - nature.com
Our private connections can be exposed by link prediction algorithms. To date, this threat
has only been addressed from the perspective of a central authority, completely neglecting …

Link prediction in highly fractional data sets

M Fire, R Puzis, Y Elovici - Handbook of computational approaches to …, 2013‏ - Springer
In recent years, online social networks have grown in scale and variability and offer
individuals with similar interests the possibility of exchanging ideas and networking. On the …

NetSRE: Link predictability measuring and regulating

X **an, T Wu, S Qiao, XZ Wang, W Wang… - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Link prediction is an elemental issue for network-structured data mining, which has already
found a wide range of applications. The organization of real-world networks usually …

Privacy-preserving network embedding against private link inference attacks

X Han, Y Yang, L Wang, J Wu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network embedding represents network nodes by a low-dimensional informative vector.
While it is generally effective for various downstream tasks, it may leak some private …