Social Networks and Surveillance for Society

This book focuses on recent technical advancements and state-of-the art technologies for analyzing characteristic features and probabilistic modelling of complex social networks and decentralized online network architectures. Such research results in applications related to surveillance and privacy, fraud analysis, cyber forensics, propaganda campaigns, as well as for online social networks such as Facebook. The text illustrates the benefits of using advanced social network analysis methods through application case studies based on practical test results from synthetic and real-world data. This book will appeal to researchers and students working in these areas.-- Back cover Front Matter ....Pages i-vii Frauds in Online Social Networks: A Review (Manoj Apte, Girish Keshav Palshikar, Sriram Baskaran)....Pages 1-18 Leveraging Social Network Analysis and Cyber Forensics Approaches to Study Cyber Propaganda Campaigns (Samer Al-Khateeb, Muhammad Nihal Hussain, Nitin Agarwal)....Pages 19-42 Hiding Self on Facebook Sidebar Ticker, Surveillance, and Privacy (Chih Ping Chang)....Pages 43-56 Identifying Influential Spreaders in Complex Networks with Probabilistic Links (Pavlos Basaras, Dimitrios Katsaros)....Pages 57-84 Decentralized Online Social Network Architectures (Francisco de Asís López-Fuentes)....Pages 85-100 We Shall Not Only Survive to the Future of Social Networks (Christophe Thovex)....Pages 101-113 A Centrality Measure for Directed Networks: m-Ranking Method (Reji Kumar, Shibu Manuel)....Pages 115-128 Searching on Facebook Through the Lens of the Concept of Privacy (Chih Ping Chang)....Pages 129-148 Emergency Detection and Evacuation Planning Using Social Media (Coşkun Şahin, Jon Rokne, Reda Alhajj)....Pages 149-164 Social Network Analysis to Combat Terrorism: 2015 Paris Attacks (Animesh Gupta, Tansel Özyer, Jon Rokne, Reda Alhajj)....Pages 165-179