A vision of the future Internet is introduced in such a fashion that various computing devices are connected together to form a network called Internet of Things (IoT). This network will generate massive data that may be ...

The combination of smart home platforms and automation apps introduce many conveniences to smart home users. However, this also brings the potential of privacy leakage. If a smart home platform is permitted to collect all ...

Influence blocking maximization (IBM) is a key problem for viral marketing in competitive social networks. Although the IBM problem has been extensively studied, existing works neglect the fact that the location information ...

Social networking sites engage millions of users around the world. The users' interactions with these social sites, such as Twitter and Facebook have a tremendous impact and occasionally undesirable repercussions for daily ...

Cloud computing has been a cost-efficient paradigm for deploying various applications in datacenters in recent years. Therefore, efficient provisioning for virtual data center (VDC) requests from different service providers ...

Because location-based cyber services are increasingly found in mobile applications (e.g., social networking and maps), user location privacy preservation is essential and remains one of the several ongoing research ...

Internet of Things (IoT) is proposed and used in diverse application domains. In IoT, nodes commonly have a low capacity to maintain security on their own expenses, which increases the vulnerability for several attacks. ...

Software-defined network (SDN) is widely used in smart grid for monitoring and managing the communication network. Big data analytics for SDN-based smart grid has got increasing attention. It is a promising approach to use ...

This paper examines through the lens of expectancy-valence theory the impact of trust, privacy, and security on the decision to use the internet for online shopping and social media. It also investigates the moderating ...

This study examines the diversification and hedging properties of Bitcoin (BTC) and gold assets for oil and S&P GSCI investors. We model and forecast the volatility performance of the pairs BTC-oil, gold-oil, BTC-S&P GSCI, ...