Advance in Contextualizing Focal Structure Sets in Complex Network Analysis

Mustafa Alassad, Ph.D. Candidate

Committee Chair: Dr. Nitin Agarwal
Committee Members: Dr. Ibrahim Nisanci, Dr. Kamram Iqbal, Dr. Mariofanna Milanova, Dr. Samer Al-Khateeb

Social networks has been a platform for organizing protests campaigns or mobilizing crowds for many years with few restrictions, limits or limits towards individual and shared postings. Trending new topics have driven research efforts to analyze On-line Social Networks (OSN) for misinformation conspiracy theories, motives and behaviors to identify spreaders and those who are behind the scenes.