Identifying Fake Accounts on Social Networks Based on Graph Analysis and Classification Algorithms
Joint Authors
Mohammadrezaei, Mohammadreza
Shiri, Mohammad Ebrahim
Rahmani, Amir Masoud
Source
Security and Communication Networks
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-8, 8 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2018-08-05
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
8
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
Social networks have become popular due to the ability to connect people around the world and share videos, photos, and communications.
One of the security challenges in these networks, which have become a major concern for users, is creating fake accounts.
In this paper, a new model which is based on similarity between the users’ friends’ networks was proposed in order to discover fake accounts in social networks.
Similarity measures such as common friends, cosine, Jaccard, L1-measure, and weight similarity were calculated from the adjacency matrix of the corresponding graph of the social network.
To evaluate the proposed model, all steps were implemented on the Twitter dataset.
It was found that the Medium Gaussian SVM algorithm predicts fake accounts with high area under the curve=1 and low false positive rate=0.02.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Mohammadrezaei, Mohammadreza& Shiri, Mohammad Ebrahim& Rahmani, Amir Masoud. 2018. Identifying Fake Accounts on Social Networks Based on Graph Analysis and Classification Algorithms. Security and Communication Networks،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214247
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Mohammadrezaei, Mohammadreza…[et al.]. Identifying Fake Accounts on Social Networks Based on Graph Analysis and Classification Algorithms. Security and Communication Networks No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214247
American Medical Association (AMA)
Mohammadrezaei, Mohammadreza& Shiri, Mohammad Ebrahim& Rahmani, Amir Masoud. Identifying Fake Accounts on Social Networks Based on Graph Analysis and Classification Algorithms. Security and Communication Networks. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214247
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1214247