Information Discovery and Delivery: Volume 45 Issue 3

Guest editorial

J. Jenny Li, I-Hsien Ting, Charles Perez

Network based model of social media big data predicts contagious disease diffusion

Lauren S. Elkin, Kamil Topal, Gurkan Bebek

Predicting future outbreaks and understanding how they are spreading from location to location can improve patient care provided. Recently, mining social media big data provided…

Finding m-similar users in social networks using the m-representative skyline query

Kuo-Cheng Ting, Ruei-Ping Wang, Yi-Chung Chen, Don-Lin Yang, Hsi-Min Chen

Using social networks to identify users with traits similar to those of the target user has proven highly effective in the development of personalized recommendation systems…

Discovery and classification of user interests on social media

Basit Shahzad, Ikramullah Lali, M. Saqib Nawaz, Waqar Aslam, Raza Mustafa, Atif Mashkoor

Twitter users’ generated data, known as tweets, are now not only used for communication and opinion sharing, but they are considered an important source of trendsetting, future…

Spatio-temporal dynamics of web pages diffused in WeChat

Liang Liu, Bin Chen, Wangchun Jiang, Lingnan He, Xiaogang Qiu

WeChat is the largest acquaintance social networking platform in China, in which users can view and reshare web pages shared by friends. This paper aims to analyze the…

Emotional classification and visualization of movies based on their IMDb reviews

Kamil Topal, Gultekin Ozsoyoglu

The purpose of this study is to detect these reviews’ complex emotions, visualize and analyze them. Movie reviewers’ moviescores and reviews can be analyzed with respect to their…