Semantics-enhanced privacy recommendation for social networking sites

Qingrui Li, Juan Li, Hui Wang, Ashok Ginjala

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Abstract

Privacy protection is a vital issue for safe social interactions within social networking sites (SNS). Although SNSs such as My Space and Face book allow users to configure their privacy settings, it is not a simple task for normal users with hundreds of online friends. In this paper, we propose an intelligent semantics-based privacy configuration system, named SPAC, to automatically recommend privacy settings for SNS users. SPAC learns users' privacy configuration patterns and make predictions by utilizing machine learning techniques on users' profiles and privacy setting history. To increase the accuracy of the predicted privacy settings, especially in the context of heterogeneous user profiles, we enhance privacy configuration predictor by integrating it with structured semantic knowledge in the SNS. This, in turn, allows SPAC to make inferences based on additional source of knowledge, resulting in improved accuracy of privacy recommendation. Our experimental results have proven the effectiveness of our approach.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProc. 10th IEEE Int. Conf. on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2011, 8th IEEE Int. Conf. on Embedded Software and Systems, ICESS 2011, 6th Int. Conf. FCST 2011
Pages226-233
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event10th IEEE Int. Conf. on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2011, 8th IEEE Int. Conf. on Embedded Software and Systems, ICESS 2011, 6th Int. Conf. on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology, FCST 2011 - Changsha, China
Duration: 16 Nov 201118 Nov 2011

Publication series

NameProc. 10th IEEE Int. Conf. on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2011, 8th IEEE Int. Conf. on Embedded Software and Systems, ICESS 2011, 6th Int. Conf. on FCST 2011

Conference

Conference10th IEEE Int. Conf. on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2011, 8th IEEE Int. Conf. on Embedded Software and Systems, ICESS 2011, 6th Int. Conf. on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology, FCST 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChangsha
Period16/11/1118/11/11

Keywords

  • ontology
  • privacy
  • recommendation
  • semantics
  • social network

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