The widespread use of big social data has influenced the research community in several
significant ways. In particular, the notion of social trust has attracted a great deal of attention …

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Online social networks have established virtual platforms enabling people to express their
opinions, interests and thoughts in a variety of contexts and domains, allowing legitimate …

Online social networks (OSNs) have emerged as a major platform for sharing information
through social relationships and are one of the major sources of big data. Social networks …

Influence plays a critical role in information communication, and the ubiquitous use of social
media has made measuring influence on social media platforms a salient challenge. While …

Abstract The wealth of Social Big Data (SBD) represents a unique opportunity for
organisations to obtain the excessive use of such data abundance to increase their …

This thesis presents several state-of-the-art approaches constructed for the purpose of (i)
studying the trustworthiness of users in Online Social Network platforms,(ii) deriving …

In the light of the information revolution, and the propagation of big social data, the
dissemination of misleading information is certainly difficult to control. This is due to the rapid …

A wide array of techniques within explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) have been
developed to measure the importance of features in machine learning models. A notable …

In social bookmarking websites, social tags contain rich information about individual
preference in web resources. Nevertheless, the unsupervised way of tag creation makes the …