Towards Exposing Cyberstalkers in Online Social Networks

Abstract

This paper presents work-in-progress towards a computational approach for capturing a type of deviant behaviors, that are characterised by persistent monitoring and information gathering through online social medias. Such behaviors are commonly associated with stalking on the cyberspace. We present a network-based framework for describing online user interactions. Based on this framework we provide a description of excessive and unreciprocated attention an agent pays to another agent. We conclude with a discussion on limitation of the current work and a guideline for future extensions.

Detecting abnormal attention in online social networks from local views

“…In [7], we present a network-based framework for describing online user interactions. Attention has been measured using the amount of messages which posted and retrieved by users from the global view.…”