The advent of online social networks (OSNs) paired with the ubiquitous proliferation of smartphones have enabled social sensing systems. In the last few years, the aptitude of humans to spontaneously collect and timely share context…
A novel approach to modeling online user behavior extracts and analyzes digital DNA-inspired sequences from users’ online actions. Standard DNA analysis techniques can then discriminate between genuine and spambot accounts.
Inspired by biological DNA, we model the behaviour of online users as “Digital DNA” sequences, introducing a strikingly novel, simple, and effective approach to discriminate between genuine and spambot online accounts.
Fake followers are those Twitter accounts specifically created to inflate the number of followers of a target account. Fake followers are dangerous for the social platform and beyond, since they may alter concepts like popularity…
The descriptor function framework is used as tool for the control management of a swarm of dynamic agents. In this framework, a provision is made for obstacle and collision avoidance, thus improving the potential of…