A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis on Social Network Anonymization: Current Approaches and Future Directions

In recent decades, social network anonymization has become a crucial research field due to its pivotal role in preserving users' privacy. However, the high diversity of approaches introduced in relevant studies poses a challenge to gaining a profound understanding of the field. In response to this, the current study presents an exhaustive and well-structured bibliometric analysis of the social network anonymization field. To begin our research, related studies from the period of 2007-2022 were collected from the Scopus Database then pre-processed. Following this, the VOSviewer was used to visualize the network of authors' keywords. Subsequently, extensive statistical and network analyses were performed to identify the most prominent keywords and trending topics. Additionally, the application of co-word analysis through SciMAT and the Alluvial diagram allowed us to explore the themes of social network anonymization and scrutinize their evolution over time. These analyses culminated in an innovative taxonomy of the existing approaches and anticipation of potential trends in this domain. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first bibliometric analysis in the social network anonymization field, which offers a deeper understanding of the current state and an insightful roadmap for future research in this domain.Comment: 73 pages, 28 figure

Distributed Database Management Techniques for Wireless Sensor Networks

Authors and/or their employers shall have the right to post the accepted version of IEEE-copyrighted articles on their own personal servers or the servers of their institutions or employers without permission from IEEE, provided that the posted version includes a prominently displayed IEEE copyright notice and, when published, a full citation to the original IEEE publication, including a link to the article abstract in IEEE Xplore. Authors shall not post the final, published versions of their papers.In sensor networks, the large amount of data generated by sensors greatly influences the lifetime of the network. In order to manage this amount of sensed data in an energy-efficient way, new methods of storage and data query are needed. In this way, the distributed database approach for sensor networks is proved as one of the most energy-efficient data storage and query techniques. This paper surveys the state of the art of the techniques used to manage data and queries in wireless sensor networks based on the distributed paradigm. A classification of these techniques is also proposed. The goal of this work is not only to present how data and query management techniques have advanced nowadays, but also show their benefits and drawbacks, and to identify open issues providing guidelines for further contributions in this type of distributed architectures.This work was partially supported by the Instituto de Telcomunicacoes, Next Generation Networks and Applications Group (NetGNA), Portugal, by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion, through the Plan Nacional de I+D+i 2008-2011 in the Subprograma de Proyectos de Investigacion Fundamental, project TEC2011-27516, by the Polytechnic University of Valencia, though the PAID-05-12 multidisciplinary projects, by Government of Russian Federation, Grant 074-U01, and by National Funding from the FCT-Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia through the Pest-OE/EEI/LA0008/2013 Project.Diallo, O.; Rodrigues, JJPC.; Sene, M.; Lloret, J. (2013). Distributed Database Management Techniques for Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. PP(99):1-17. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPDS.2013.207S117PP9

Data Mining in Internet of Things Systems: A Literature Review

The Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud technologies have been the main focus of recent research, allowing for the accumulation of a vast amount of data generated from this diverse environment. These data include without any doubt priceless knowledge if could correctly discovered and correlated in an efficient manner. Data mining algorithms can be applied to the Internet of Things (IoT) to extract hidden information from the massive amounts of data that are generated by IoT and are thought to have high business value. In this paper, the most important data mining approaches covering classification, clustering, association analysis, time series analysis, and outlier analysis from the knowledge will be covered. Additionally, a survey of recent work in in this direction is included. Another significant challenges in the field are collecting, storing, and managing the large number of devices along with their associated features. In this paper, a deep look on the data mining for the IoT platforms will be given concentrating on real applications found in the literatur

Leveraging query logs for user-centric OLAP

OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing), the process of efficiently enabling common analytical operations on the multidimensional view of data, is a corner stone of Business Intelligence.While OLAP is now a mature, efficiently implemented technology, very little attention has been paid to the effectiveness of the analysis and the user-friendliness of this technology, often considered tedious of use.This dissertation is a contribution to developing user-centric OLAP, focusing on the use of former queries logged by an OLAP server to enhance subsequent analyses. It shows how logs of OLAP queries can be modeled, constructed, manipulated, compared, and finally leveraged for personalization and recommendation.Logs are modeled as sets of analytical sessions, sessions being modeled as sequences of OLAP queries. Three main approaches are presented for modeling queries: as unevaluated collections of fragments (e.g., group by sets, sets of selection predicates, sets of measures), as sets of references obtained by partially evaluating the query over dimensions, or as query answers. Such logs can be constructed even from sets of SQL query expressions, by translating these expressions into a multidimensional algebra, and bridging the translations to detect analytical sessions. Logs can be searched, filtered, compared, combined, modified and summarized with a language inspired by the relational algebra and parametrized by binary relations over sessions. In particular, these relations can be specialization relations or based on similarity measures tailored for OLAP queries and analytical sessions. Logs can be mined for various hidden knowledge, that, depending on the query model used, accurately represents the user behavior extracted.This knowledge includes simple preferences, navigational habits and discoveries made during former explorations,and can be it used in various query personalization or query recommendation approaches.Such approaches vary in terms of formulation effort, proactiveness, prescriptiveness and expressive power:query personalization, i.e., coping with a current query too few or too many results, can use dedicated operators for expressing preferences, or be based on query expansion;query recommendation, i.e., suggesting queries to pursue an analytical session,can be based on information extracted from the current state of the database and the query, or be purely history based, i.e., leveraging the query log.While they can be immediately integrated into a complete architecture for User-Centric Query Answering in data warehouses, the models and approaches introduced in this dissertation can also be seen as a starting point for assessing the effectiveness of analytical sessions, with the ultimate goal to enhance the overall decision making process

Mining Meaning from Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a goldmine of information; not just for its many readers, but also for the growing community of researchers who recognize it as a resource of exceptional scale and utility. It represents a vast investment of manual effort and judgment: a huge, constantly evolving tapestry of concepts and relations that is being applied to a host of tasks. This article provides a comprehensive description of this work. It focuses on research that extracts and makes use of the concepts, relations, facts and descriptions found in Wikipedia, and organizes the work into four broad categories: applying Wikipedia to natural language processing; using it to facilitate information retrieval and information extraction; and as a resource for ontology building. The article addresses how Wikipedia is being used as is, how it is being improved and adapted, and how it is being combined with other structures to create entirely new resources. We identify the research groups and individuals involved, and how their work has developed in the last few years. We provide a comprehensive list of the open-source software they have produced.Comment: An extensive survey of re-using information in Wikipedia in natural language processing, information retrieval and extraction and ontology building. Accepted for publication in International Journal of Human-Computer Studie