The study of influence-driven propagations in social networks and its exploitation for viral
marketing purposes has recently received a large deal of attention. However, regardless of …

In recent years, microblogs have become an important source for reporting real-world
events. A real-world occurrence reported in microblogs is also called a social event. Social …

Latent topic analysis has emerged as one of the most effective methods for classifying,
clustering and retrieving textual data. However, existing models such as Latent Dirichlet …

Internet slang words can very quickly become ubiquitous because of social memes and viral
online content. Weibo, a Twitter-like service in China, demonstrates that the adoption of …

Users of popular services like Twitter and Facebook are often simultaneously overwhelmed
with the amount of information delivered via their social connections and miss out on much …

Accurately representing the quantity and characteristics of users' interest in certain topics is
an important problem facing topic evolution researchers, particularly as it applies to modern …

As one of the most influential social media platforms, microblogging is becoming
increasingly popular in the last decades. Each day a large amount of events appear and …

Influence maximization is the key algorithmic problem behind viral marketing: it requires to
identify a set of influential users in a social network, who, when convinced to adopt a …

In past few years, social networking has significantly contributed to online presence of users.
These social networks are hosts to a number of viral phenomena. This has fetched a lot of …

Rapid advancements in internet and social media technologies have made “information
overload” a rampant and widespread problem. Complex subjects, histories, or issues break …