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From Digital Tracks to Digital Twins: On the Path to Cross-Platform Profile Linking

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Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing. EDOC 2023 Workshops (EDOC 2023)

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In recent years, many studies have focused on correlating the profiles of real users across different social media. On the one hand, this provides a better overview of the user’s social behavior; on the other hand, it can be used to warn of possible abuse through identity theft or cyberbullying. We try to make the threat on the Web predictable for the individual user by creating digital twins. To do this, it is important to use different data sources and to merge overlapping data across platforms. In this paper, we show that YouTube is a suitable entry point into the online social network for making connections between platforms, tracking user activity across platforms, and finally merging the collected profile information into an overall picture, the digital twin.

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This research is funded by dtec.bw – Digitalization and Technology Research Center of the Bundeswehr. dtec.bw is funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.

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    Sergej Schultenkämper & Frederik S. Bäumer

  2. University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Research Institute CODE, Neubiberg, Germany

    Benjamin Bellgrau, Yeong Su Lee & Michaela Geierhos

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Schultenkämper, S., Bäumer, F.S., Bellgrau, B., Lee, Y.S., Geierhos, M. (2024). From Digital Tracks to Digital Twins: On the Path to Cross-Platform Profile Linking. In: Sales, T.P., de Kinderen, S., Proper, H.A., Pufahl, L., Karastoyanova, D., van Sinderen, M. (eds) Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing. EDOC 2023 Workshops . EDOC 2023. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 498. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54712-6_10

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