Complex networks are frequently employed to model physical or virtual complex systems.
When certain entities exist across multiple systems simultaneously, unveiling their …

Social media is used to commit and detect crimes. With automated methods, it is possible to
scale both crime and detection of crime to a large number of people. The ability of criminals …

In online discussion communities, users can interact and share information and opinions on
a wide variety of topics. However, some users may create multiple identities, or sockpuppets …

The proliferation of e-commerce sites and online social media has allowed users to provide
preference feedback and maintain profiles in multiple systems, reflecting a variety of their …

The last few years have witnessed the emergence and evolution of a vibrant research
stream on a large variety of online social media network (SMN) platforms. Recognizing …

Identification of anonymous identical users of cross-platforms refers to the recognition of the
accounts belonging to the same individual among multiple Social Network (SN) platforms …

Matching the profiles of a user across multiple online social networks brings opportunities for
new services and applications as well as new insights on user online behavior, yet it raises …

Providing relevant personalized recommendations for new users is one of the major
challenges in recommender systems. This problem, known as the user cold start has been …

Twitter does not impose a Real-Name policy for usernames, giving users the freedom to
choose how they want to be identified. This results in some users being Identifiable …

The scheduling of mixed-criticality implicit-deadline sporadic task systems on identical
multiprocessor platforms is considered, when inter-processor migration is permitted. A …