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There is a tremendous increase in spam traffic these days. Spam messages muddle up users inbox, consume network resources, and build up DDoS attacks, spread worms and viruses. Our goal is to present a definite figure about the…

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Social networks offer a ready channel for fake and misleading news to spread and exert influence. This paper examines the performance of different reputation algorithms when applied to a large and statistically significant portion of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Rakshit Agrawal , Luca de Alfaro , Gabriele Ballarin , Stefano Moret , Massimo Di Pierro , Eugenio Tacchini , Marco L. Della Vedova

This article considers a short survey of basic methods of social networks analysis, which are used for detecting cyber threats. The main types of social network threats are presented. Basic methods of graph theory and data mining, that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Lyudmyla Kirichenko , Tamara Radivilova , Anders Carlsson

Twitter, a popular social media outlet, has evolved into a vast source of linguistic data, rich with opinion, sentiment, and discussion. Due to the increasing popularity of Twitter, its perceived potential for exerting social influence has…

We tackle the challenge of topic classification of tweets in the context of analyzing a large collection of curated streams by news outlets and other organizations to deliver relevant content to users. Our approach is novel in applying…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Salman Mohammed , Nimesh Ghelani , Jimmy Lin

The rapid development of IoT applications and their use in various fields of everyday life has resulted in an escalated number of different possible cyber-threats, and has consequently raised the need of securing IoT devices. Collecting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Sofia Alevizopoulou , Paris Koloveas , Christos Tryfonopoulos , Paraskevi Raftopoulou

Spam messages continue to present significant challenges to digital users, cluttering inboxes and posing security risks. Traditional spam detection methods, including rules-based, collaborative, and machine learning approaches, struggle to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Qiyao Tang , Xiangyang Li

Web spam is a big problem for search engine users in World Wide Web. They use deceptive techniques to achieve high rankings. Although many researchers have presented the different approach for classification and web spam detection still it…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Hamed Jelodar , Yongli Wang , Chi Yuan , Xiaohui Jiang

The rise of online aggression on social media is evolving into a major point of concern. Several machine and deep learning approaches have been proposed recently for detecting various types of aggressive behavior. However, social media are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Herodotos Herodotou , Despoina Chatzakou , Nicolas Kourtellis

In the past few years, there has been a huge growth in Twitter sentiment analysis having already provided a fair amount of research on sentiment detection of public opinion among Twitter users. Given the fact that Twitter messages are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Sotiris K. Tasoulis , Aristidis G. Vrahatis , Spiros V. Georgakopoulos , Vassilis P. Plagianakos

Spam is commonly known as unsolicited or unwanted email messages in the Internet causing potential threat to Internet Security. Users spend a valuable amount of time deleting spam emails. More importantly, ever increasing spam emails occupy…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-08-26 Md. Saiful Islam , Abdullah Al Mahmud , Md. Rafiqul Islam

Data extracted from social networks like Twitter are increasingly being used to build applications and services that mine and summarize public reactions to events, such as traffic monitoring platforms, identification of epidemic outbreaks,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-05-21 Carlos A. Freitas , Fabrício Benevenuto , Saptarshi Ghosh , Adriano Veloso

Social media datasets, especially Twitter tweets, are popular in the field of text classification. Tweets are a valuable source of micro-text (sometimes referred to as "micro-blogs"), and have been studied in domains such as sentiment…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Ankit Vadehra , Maura R. Grossman , Gordon V. Cormack

The importance of social media in our daily lives has unfortunately led to an increase in the spread of misinformation, political messages and malicious links. One of the most popular ways of carrying out those activities is using automated…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Salvador Lopez-Joya , Jose A. Diaz-Garcia , M. Dolores Ruiz , Maria J. Martin-Bautista

Social media platforms have been used for information and news gathering, and they are very valuable in many applications. However, they also lead to the spreading of rumors and fake news. Many efforts have been taken to detect and debunk…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Quanzhi Li , Qiong Zhang , Luo Si , Yingchi Liu

While social networks can provide an ideal platform for up-to-date information from individuals across the world, it has also proved to be a place where rumours fester and accidental or deliberate misinformation often emerges. In this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Georgios Giasemidis , Colin Singleton , Ioannis Agrafiotis , Jason R. C. Nurse , Alan Pilgrim , Chris Willis , Danica Vukadinovic Greetham

Nowadays, there are a lot of people using social media opinions to make their decision on buying products or services. Opinion spam detection is a hard problem because fake reviews can be made by organizations as well as individuals for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-31 L. H. Nguyen , N. T. H. Pham , V. M. Ngo

We provide an automated graph theoretic method for identifying individual users' trusted networks of friends in cyberspace. We routinely use our social networks to judge the trustworthiness of outsiders, i.e., to decide where to buy our…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-09-29 P. Oscar Boykin , Vwani Roychowdhury

Spam pages are designed to maliciously appear among the top search results by excessive usage of popular terms. Therefore, spam pages should be removed using an effective and efficient spam detection system. Previous methods for web spam…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-07-25 Ali Hadian , Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli

The increasing popularity of the social networking service, Twitter, has made it more involved in day-to-day communications, strengthening social relationships and information dissemination. Conversations on Twitter are now being explored…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-16 Oluwaseun Ajao , Jun Hong , Weiru Liu