Considering the ever-increasing size and complexity of social networks, developing
methods to extract meaningful knowledge and information from users' vast amounts of data …

The human-oriented applications aim to exploit behaviors of people, which impose
challenges on user modeling of integrating social network (SN) with knowledge graph (KG) …

E-democracy provides a virtual online platform characterized by information transparency
and equal interaction, which facilitates the participation of multiple agents in government …

The opinion dynamics literature argues that the way people perceive social influence
depends not only on the opinions of interacting individuals, but also on the individuals' non …

The emergence of the Internet and social media provides a new platform for information
diffusion, promoting the interaction among relatively independent participants in the opinion …

This study aimed to detect college students' daily peer networks through a behavioral big-
data-driven social network analysis and to explore the relationship between college …

Online information cascades (tree-like structures formed by posts, comments, likes, replies,
etc.) constitute the spine of the public online information environment, reflecting its various …

Increasingly developing online social networks has enabled users to send or receive
information very fast. However, due to the availability of an excessive amount of data in …

Abstract A Structural Hole Spanner (SHS) is a set of nodes in a network that act as a bridge
among different otherwise disconnected communities. While several solutions exist for SHS …

With the burgeoning advancements of computing and network communication technologies,
network infrastructures and their application environments have become increasingly …