The ways in which an innovation (e.g., new behaviour, idea, technology, product) diffuses among people can determine its success or failure. In this paper, we address the problem of diffusion of innovations over multiplex social networks where...

The first international workshop on Mining Actionable Insights from Social Networks (MAISoN'17) is to be held on February 10, 2017; co-located with the Tenth ACM International Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) Conference in Cambridge, UK. MAISoN'17...

In this paper, PAD is introduced which is a semantic social network developed at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. It uses the semantic web technologies in different ways: First it publishes parts of the social network data as Linked Data. It uses...

In the last 10 years, the dissemination and use of social networks have grown significantly worldwide. Online social networks have billions of users and are able to record hundreds of data from each of its users. The wide adoption of social networks...

The main idea behind social participatory sensing is to lever-age social networks as the underlying infrastructure for recruiting social friends to participate in a sensing campaign. Such recruitment requires

the transmission of messages (i...