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Social Networks and Surveillance for Society

  • Describes state-of-the-art social network analysis techniques for surveillance and privacy
  • Contains case studies showing how various domains such as cyber forensics benefit from social network analysis
  • Includes practical test results from synthetic and real data

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Social Networks (LNSN)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
  2. Frauds in Online Social Networks: A Review

    • Manoj Apte, Girish Keshav Palshikar, Sriram Baskaran
    Pages 1-18
  3. Leveraging Social Network Analysis and Cyber Forensics Approaches to Study Cyber Propaganda Campaigns

    • Samer Al-Khateeb, Muhammad Nihal Hussain, Nitin Agarwal
    Pages 19-42
  4. Decentralized Online Social Network Architectures

    • Francisco de Asís López-Fuentes
    Pages 85-100
  5. A Centrality Measure for Directed Networks: m-Ranking Method

    • Reji Kumar, Shibu Manuel
    Pages 115-128
  6. Emergency Detection and Evacuation Planning Using Social Media

    • Coşkun Şahin, Jon Rokne, Reda Alhajj
    Pages 149-164
  7. Social Network Analysis to Combat Terrorism: 2015 Paris Attacks

    • Animesh Gupta, Tansel Özyer, Jon Rokne, Reda Alhajj
    Pages 165-179

About this book

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. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Engineering, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey

    Tansel Özyer

  • Department of Computer Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Rourkela, India

    Sambit Bakshi

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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