Despite the increasing acceptance and usage of Online Social Networks (OSN), particularly the currency of user data has been identified as a crucial success factor for both, users as well as providers. However, while research on Data Quality (DQ) in traditional information systems is considered to be relatively mature, findings from prior research on currency have not yet been confirmed for the...

Globally broadband and Internet availability within households across the world has made ICT become an essential part of everyday life. Consequently, this has led to novel social computing practices and collaboration tools such as Web 2.0 Online Social Networks (OSNs). However, this growth of OSNs is far less prevalent within older Internet users. Therefore, the aim of this research-in-progress...

Internet become more popular in the day to day activity’s of user’s. In recent years online social networks (OSN) also increased rapidly. The user’s can communicate and share their views and content through online social networking services (OSN). The sharing between the users should be several types of content like image, audio, video etc. The main draw-back of these Online Social Networking (...

Online social networks (OSNs) are increasingly threatened by social bots which are software-controlled OSN accounts that mimic human users with malicious intentions. A social botnet refers to a group of social bots under the control of a single botmaster, which collaborate to conduct malicious behavior while mimicking the interactions among normal OSN users to reduce their individual risk of be...

The socialization of the web has undertaken a new dimension after the emergence of the Online Social Networks (OSN) concept. The fact that each Internet user becomes a potential content creator entails managing a big amount of data. This paper explores the most popular professional OSN: LinkedIn. A scraping technique was implemented to get around 5 Million public profiles. The application of na...

Web 2.0 and online social networking websites heavily affect today most of the online activities and their effect on tourism is obviously rather important. This paper aims at verifying the impact that online social networks (OSN) have on the popularity of tourism websites. Two OSNs have been considered: Facebook and Twitter. The pattern of visits to a sample of Italian tourism websites was anal...

With the flourish of Web-based large Online Social Networks (OSNs), people on OSNs can easily yield influence on others. Finding how the influence spreads and maximizing influence spread within OSNs have been extensively studied. State-of-the-art researches suffer two defects: (a) need to acquire the topological structure of the network, which is impractical for the continuously changing networ...

The rapid miniaturization and integration of sensor technologies into mobile Internet devices combined with Online Social Networks allows for enhanced sensor information querying, subscription, and task placement within People-Centric Sensing networks. However, PCS systems which exploit knowledge about OSN user profiles and context information for enhanced service provision might cause an unsol...

Social Networking Applications has gained tremendous response from all the sections of people across the entire world from last few years. Social networking has crossed all the boundaries and glued whole world population together. Users of OSN (Online Social Networking) sites can re-connect with school friends, find some activity or even life partners, and make new friends. OSN has also revolut...

As online social networks (OSN) attempt to mimic real life social networks, we have made progress towards using OSNs to provide us with data to allow for richer and more robust online communications. In this paper, we present a novel approach towards socially-aware email. Currently, email provides too little control to the recipient. Our approach, dubbed SoEmail, provides social context to mess...