During the last ten years, Online Social Networks (OSNs) have increased their popularity by becoming part of the real life of users. Despite their tremendous widespread, OSNs have introduced several privacy issues as a consequence of the nature of the …

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Decentralized Online Social Networks (DOSNs) have recently captured the interest of users because of the more control given to them over their shared contents. Indeed, most of the user privacy issues related to the centralized Online Social Network (OSN) services …

A Survey on Privacy in Decentralized Online Social Networks Read more »

The understanding of the user temporal behavior is a crucial aspect for all those systems that rely on user resources for daily operations, such as decentralized online social networks (DOSNs). Indeed, DOSNs exploit the devices of their users to take …

Predicting the availability of users’ devices in Decentralized Online Social Networks Read more »

1st International Workshop on Personal Analytics and Privacy (In conjunction with ECML PKDD 2017) In recent years, Online Social Networks (OSNs) have changed the way people connect and interact with each other. Indeed, most people have registered an account on …

Evaluating the impact of friends in predicting user’s availability in OSNs Read more »

Distributed Online Social Networks (DOSNs) have been proposed to shift the control over user data from a unique entity, the online social network provider, to the users of the DOSN themselves. In this paper we focus on the problem of …

A Logical Key Hierarchy Based approach to preserve content privacy in Decentralized Online Social Networks Read more »

Although most online social networks rely on a centralized infrastructure, several proposals of Distributed Online Social Networks (DOSNs) have been recently presented. Since in DOSNs user profiles are stored on the peers of the users belonging to the network, one …

Distributed Coverage of Ego Networks in F2F Online Social Networks Read more »

The wide diffusion of Online Social Networks (OSNs) presents several advantages, like the definition of simple tools for information sharing and spreading. However, OSNs present also some drawbacks, one of the most important one is the problem of privacy disclosures. …

An Analysis of Ego Network Communities and Temporal a Affinity for Online Social Networks Read more »

The large diffusion of Online Social Networks (OSNs) has influenced the way people interact with each other. OSNs present several drawbacks, one of the most important is the problem of privacy disclosures. Distributed Online Social Networks (DOSNs) have been proposed …

Evaluation of Structural and Temporal Properties of Ego Networks for Data Availability in DOSNs Read more »

Distributed Online Social Networks (DOSNs) have been recently proposed as an alternative to centralized solutions to allow a major control of the users over their own data. Since there is no centralized service provider which decides the term of service, …

Privacy-Preserving Data Allocation in Decentralized Online Social Networks Read more »

Distributed Online Social Networks (DOSNs) have recently been proposed to shift the control over user data from a unique entity to the users of the DOSN themselves. In this paper, we focus our attention on the problem of privacy preserving …

Logical key hierarchy for groups management in Distributed Online Social Network Read more »