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A growing body of research leverages social network based trust relationships to improve the functionality of the system. However, these systems expose users' trust relationships, which is considered sensitive information in today's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-31 Prateek Mittal , Charalampos Papamanthou , Dawn Song

With the introduction of large-scale network data, including population-scale social networks, techniques for privacy-aware sharing of network data become increasingly important. While existing $k$-anonymity approaches can model different…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Rachel G. de Jong , Mark P. J. van der Loo , Frank W. Takes

In this paper, we propose GraphSE$^2$, an encrypted graph database for online social network services to address massive data breaches. GraphSE$^2$ preserves the functionality of social search, a key enabler for quality social network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Shangqi Lai , Xingliang Yuan , Shi-Feng Sun , Joseph K. Liu , Yuhong Liu , Dongxi Liu

Analytics over social graphs allows to extract valuable knowledge and insights for many fields like community detection, fraud detection, and interest mining. In practice, decentralized social graphs frequently arise, where the social graph…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Songlei Wang , Yifeng Zheng , Xiaohua Jia , Xun Yi

Graph embedding algorithms are used to efficiently represent (encode) a graph in a low-dimensional continuous vector space that preserves the most important properties of the graph. One aspect that is often overlooked is whether the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Zekarias T. Kefato , Nasrullah Sheikh , Alberto Montresor

The generation of random graphs using edge swaps provides a reliable method to draw uniformly random samples of sets of graphs respecting some simple constraints, e.g. degree distributions. However, in general, it is not necessarily…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-02-06 Lionel Tabourier , Camille Roth , Jean-Philippe Cointet

Protecting privacy in social graphs may require obscuring nodes' membership in sensitive communities. However, doing so without significantly disrupting the underlying graph topology remains a key challenge. In this work, we address the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Matteo Silvestri , Edoardo Gabrielli , Fabrizio Silvestri , Gabriele Tolomei

Network sparsification aims to reduce the number of edges of a network while maintaining its structural properties; such properties include shortest paths, cuts, spectral measures, or network modularity. Sparsification has multiple…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Aristides Gionis , Polina Rozenshtein , Nikolaj Tatti , Evimaria Terzi

In recent years, graph anomaly detection has found extensive applications in various domains such as social, financial, and communication networks. However, anomalies in graph-structured data present unique challenges, including label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Yuxuan Cao , Jiarong Xu , Chen Zhao , Jiaan Wang , Carl Yang , Chunping Wang , Yang Yang

Detecting anomalies in data is a vital task, with numerous high-impact applications in areas such as security, finance, health care, and law enforcement. While numerous techniques have been developed in past years for spotting outliers and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Leman Akoglu , Hanghang Tong , Danai Koutra

Graph are a ubiquitous data representation, as they represent a flexible and compact representation. For instance, the 3D structure of RNA can be efficiently represented as $\textit{2.5D graphs}$, graphs whose nodes are nucleotides and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Vincent Mallet , Carlos G. Oliver , William L. Hamilton

Adaptive networks model social, physical, technical, or biological systems as attributed graphs evolving at the level of both their topology and data. They are naturally described by graph transformation, but the majority of authors take an…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Nicolas Behr , Bello Shehu Bello , Sebastian Ehmes , Reiko Heckel

With the advancement of communication technology,data is exchanged digitally over the network. At the other side the technology is also proven as a tool for unauthorized access to attackers. Thus the security of data to be transmitted…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2014-07-11 Manisha Rana , Rohit Tanwar

Smart cities, which can monitor the real world and provide smart services in a variety of fields, have improved people's living standards as urbanization has accelerated. However, there are security and privacy concerns because smart city…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Jing Jia , Kenta Saito , Hiroaki Nishi

This study develops a novel framework for privacy-preserving data analytics, addressing the critical challenge of balancing data utility with privacy concerns. We introduce three sophisticated algorithms: a Noise-Infusion Technique tailored…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Zahir Alsulaimawi

Web query log data contain information useful to research; however, release of such data can re-identify the search engine users issuing the queries. These privacy concerns go far beyond removing explicitly identifying information such as…

Databases · Computer Science 2010-12-06 Amin Milani Fard , Ke Wang

Graph classification, which aims to identify the category labels of graphs, plays a significant role in drug classification, toxicity detection, protein analysis etc. However, the limitation of scale of benchmark datasets makes it easy for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Jiajun Zhou , Jie Shen , Qi Xuan

The proliferation of signed networks in contemporary social media platforms necessitates robust privacy-preserving mechanisms. Graph unlearning, which aims to eliminate the influence of specific data points from trained models without full…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Zhifei Luo , Lin Li , Xiaohui Tao , Kaize Shi

This work focuses on showing some arguments addressed to dismantle the extended idea about that social networks completely lacks of privacy properties. We consider the so-called active attacks to the privacy of social networks and the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Serafino Cicerone , Gabriele Di Stefano , Sandi Klavžar , Ismael G. Yero

We consider the problem of discretizing one-dimensional, real-valued functions as graphs. The goal is to find a small set of points, from which we can approximate the remaining function values. The method for approximating the unknown…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-01 John Paul Ward