...ELyazid Akachar; Brahim Ouhbi; Bouchra Frikh Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an algorithm for detecting communities in social networks. Design/methodology/approach The majority of existing methods of community detection in social networks are based on structural information...

...Issa Alsmadi; Keng Hoon Gan Purpose Rapid developments in social networks and their usage in everyday life have caused an explosion in the amount of short electronic documents. Thus, the need to classify this type of document based on their content has a significant implication in many...

...Sebastião M. Neto; Sérgio Dias; Rokia Missaoui; Luis Zárate; Mark Song Purpose In recent years, the increasing complexity of the hyper-connected world demands new approaches for social network analysis. The main challenges are to find new computational methods that allow the representation...

...-infected recovered (SIR) model to identify influence of users. Results show that the combination of behavioral and social characteristics would be determined the most influential users that influence majority of nodes on social networks. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, the authors define...

...Paula Raissa; Sérgio Dias; Mark Song; Luis Zárate Purpose Currently, social network (SN) analysis is focused on the discovery of activity and social relationship patterns. Usually, these relationships are not easily and completely observed. Therefore, it is relevant to discover substructures...

...‐based filtering module. Additionally, the paper aims to see how people communicate with each other through social networks in a case study with rule‐based analysis. Design/methodology/approach The authors developed a java‐based data gathering tool with a rule‐based filtering module for collecting...

...Hend S. Al‐Khalifa Purpose This study aims to understand the underlying social structure of Saudi citizens' interaction and discussion of political topics over the Twitter sphere. Design/methodology/approach The study employs social network analysis (SNA) measurements such as centrality...

...Barbara Carminati; Elena Ferrari Purpose Web‐based social networks (WBSNs) are today one of the most relevant phenomena related to the advent of Web 2.0. The purpose of this paper is to discuss main security and privacy requirements arising in WBSNs, with a particular focus on access control...