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Popularity Evolution of Professional Users on Facebook
Samin Mohammadi, Reza Farahbakhsh, Noel Crespi
Popularity in social media is an important objective for professional users (e.g. companies, celebrities, and public figures, etc). A simple yet prominent metric utilized to measur…
How far is Facebook from me? Facebook network infrastructure analysis
Reza Farahbakhsh, Angel Cuevas, Antonio M. Ortiz +2
Facebook is today the most popular social network with more than one billion subscribers worldwide. To provide good quality of service (e.g., low access delay) to their clients, FB…
Characterization of Cross-posting Activity for Professional Users across Facebook, Twitter and Google+
Reza Farahbakhsh, Angel Cuevas, Noel Crespi
Professional players in social media (e.g., big companies, politician, athletes, celebrities, etc) are intensively using Online Social Networks (OSNs) in order to interact with a h…
Understanding the evolution of multimedia content in the Internet through BitTorrent glasses
Reza Farahbakhsh, Angel Cuevas, Ruben Cuevas +2
Today's Internet traffic is mostly dominated by multimedia content and the prediction is that this trend will intensify in the future. Therefore, main Internet players, such as ISP…
Analysis of publicly disclosed information in Facebook profiles
Reza Farahbakhsh, Xiao Han, Angel Cuevas +1
Facebook, the most popular Online social network is a virtual environment where users share information and are in contact with friends. Apart from many useful aspects, there is a…
Middleware Technologies for Cloud of Things - a survey
Amirhossein Farahzadia, Pooyan Shams, Javad Rezazadeh +1
The next wave of communication and applications rely on the new services provided by Internet of Things which is becoming an important aspect in human and machines future. The IoT…
An in-depth characterisation of Bots and Humans on Twitter
Zafar Gilani, Reza Farahbakhsh, Gareth Tyson +2
Recent research has shown a substantial active presence of bots in online social networks (OSNs). In this paper we utilise our past work on studying bots (Stweeler) to comparativel…
NetSpam: a Network-based Spam Detection Framework for Reviews in Online Social Media
Saeedreza Shehnepoor, Mostafa Salehi, Reza Farahbakhsh +1
Nowadays, a big part of people rely on available content in social media in their decisions (e.g. reviews and feedback on a topic or product). The possibility that anybody can leav…