Structural hole theory in social network analysis: A review

Z Lin, Y Zhang, Q Gong, Y Chen… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Social networks now connect billions of people around the world, where individuals
occupying different positions often represent different social roles and show different …

A survey on computational politics

EU Haq, T Braud, YD Kwon, P Hui - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computational Politics is the study of computational methods to analyze and moderate
users' behaviors related to political activities such as election campaign persuasion, political …

Aquilis: Using contextual integrity for privacy protection on mobile devices

A Kumar, T Braud, YD Kwon, P Hui - … of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Smartphones are nowadays the dominant end-user device. As a result, they have become
gateways to all users' communications, including sensitive personal data. In this paper, we …

GeoLifecycle: User engagement of geographical exploration and churn prediction in LBSNs

YD Kwon, D Chatzopoulos, E ul Haq… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
As Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) have become widely used by users,
understanding user engagement and predicting user churn are essential to the …

Identifying structural hole spanners in online social networks using machine learning

Q Gong, J Zhang, X Wang, Y Chen - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Online social networks play an important role in our daily activities. As an important concept
in social network analytics, the structural hole theory shows that the positions in social …

Enemy at the gate: evolution of Twitter user's polarization during national crisis

E Haq, T Braud, YD Kwon, P Hui - Proceedings of the 12th IEEE/ACM …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Social networks are effective platforms to study the real-life behavior of users. In this paper,
we study users' political polarization during the times of crisis and its relation to nationalism …

Enemy at the Gate: Evolution of Twitter User's Polarization During National Crisis

E ul Haq, T Braud, YD Kwon… - 2020 IEEE/ACM …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Social networks are effective platforms to study the real-life behavior of users. In this paper,
we study users' political polarization during the times of crisis and its relation to nationalism …

Personalized privacy-preserving semi-centralized recommendation system in a social network

CK Leung, Q Wen - Proceedings of the International Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In the contemporary era of big data, recommendation systems play a crucial role in guiding
our daily decision-making amidst an overwhelming array of choices. Personalized …

Social network mining and analytics for quantitative patterns

CCJ Hryhoruk, CK Leung, AGM Pazdor - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Frequent pattern mining has gained popularity in the realm of knowledge discovery and big
data analytics as it identifies sets of items that frequently co-occur (eg, popular merchandise …

Identifying the Best Targets for an Advertisement Campaign via Online Social Networks

M Bonomo, A La Placa, SE Rombo - arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.02108, 2020 - arxiv.org
We propose a novel approach for the recommendation of possible customers (users) to
advertisers (eg, brands) based on two main aspects:(i) the comparison between On-line …