The rapid growth of social network services has produced a considerable amount of data,
called big social data. Big social data are helpful for improving personalized recommender …

Friend recommendation in online social networks (OSNs) has recently experienced rapid
development and received much research attention. Existing recommender systems on the …

Social networks connect users to share thoughts and build friendships. The high degree of
intimacy among users has made it a good venue for word-of-mouth (WoM) marketing …

The business models of media corporations and organisations have undergone a
pronounced transition that has resulted in significant change in the last decade, shifting from …

The use of social networks has grown noticeably in recent years and this fact has led to the
production of numerous volumes of data. Data that are widely used by users on the social …

User activities can influence their subsequent interactions with a post, generating interest in
the user. Typically, users interact with posts from friends by commenting and using reaction …

Social networks constitute an important medium for social interaction where people
communicate and formulate relationships in a way similar to what they do in real life. The …

A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a set of autonomous mobile devices connected by
wireless links in a distributed manner and without a fixed infrastructure. Real-time …

Most of existing network-based decision-support systems, such as recommender systems,
require knowing users' social context and, thus, the strength of their interactions. However …

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate which communication types on social media are
most indicative for romantic tie prediction. In contrast to analyzing communication as a …