Abstract Cyber-Physical-Social systems (CPSSs) are the extension of Cyber-Physical
systems (CPS), which seamlessly integrate cyber space, physical space and social space …

The traditional image steganography technologies designate a cover image and embed
secret data into it to form the stego-image. However, the modification traces caused by the …

With the ubiquity of information networks and their broad applications, the issue of similarity
computation between entities of an information network arises and draws extensive …

Tags are user-generated labels for entities. Existing research on tag recommendation either
focuses on improving its accuracy or on automating the process, while ignoring the …

Information networks are ubiquitous in many applications and analysis on such networks
has attracted significant attention in the academic communities. One of the most important …

Similarity measures for text have historically been an important tool for solving information
retrieval problems. In many interesting settings, however, documents are often closely …

Recently there has been a lot of interest in graph-based analysis. One of the most important
aspects of graph-based analysis is to measure similarity between nodes in a graph …

A key task in analyzing social networks and other complex networks is role analysis:
describing and categorizing nodes by how they interact with other nodes. Two nodes have …

The measure of similarity between objects is a very useful tool in many areas of computer
science, including information retrieval. SimRank is a simple and intuitive measure of this …

The number of vertical search engines and portals has rapidly increased over the last years,
making the importance of a topic-driven (focused) crawler self-evident. In this paper, we …