Big data has become an important issue for a large number of research areas such as data
mining, machine learning, computational intelligence, information fusion, the semantic Web …

The flow of information through active users in online social networks (OSNs) plays a major
role in forming natural social groups, popularly known as communities. Although structural …

With the development of information society and network technology, people increasingly
depend on information found on the Internet. At the same time, the models of information …

The mobile networks seem to have a steady future in the direction of the recent emergence
of socially aware cognitive mobile networks. Their style and design are specifically made in …

Game theory is a field of applied mathematics that studies strategic behavior of rational
factors. In other words, game theory is a collection of analytical tools that can be used to …

Current social networks are of extremely large-scale generating tremendous information
flows at every moment. How information diffuses over social networks has attracted much …

We consider the Internet of Things (IoT) with malware diffusion and seek optimal malware
detection strategies for preserving the privacy of smart objects in IoT networks and …

When users in online social networks make a decision, they are often affected by their
neighbors. Social recommendation models utilize social information to reveal the impact of …

The traditional rumor diffusion model primarily studies the rumor itself and user behavior as
the entry points. The complexity of user behavior, multidimensionality of the communication …

With the growing popularity of data mining, privacy has become an issue of growing
importance. Privacy can be seen as a special type of goods, in a sense that it can be traded …