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Colored Petri Net Model for Blocking Misleading Information Propagation in Online Social Networks

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Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2017 (AISI 2017)

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Rumors and misleading information propagation is one of the open problems in Online Social Networks (OSN) that haven’t mature solutions till now. In this paper, we propose a Colored Petri Net(CPN) model for detecting and blocking misleading information propagation in OSNs. We experimentally simulated and evaluated the effectiveness of our proposed model on dataset of 1003-newsworthy tweets under the trending topic (#ISIS) in Twitter social network. According to Precision, Recall, and Accuracy metrics, our obtained results cleared outperforming in detecting misleading newsworthy tweets compared with other mechanisms in the literature. In addition, verifying the Reachability property of our CPN model proved that detecting and blocking misleading tweets are reachable states according to the firing life-cycle of tokens.

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  1. Faculty of Science, Menoufyia University, Shebeen El-kom, Egypt

    Mohamed Torky, Ali Meligy & Hani Ibrahim

  2. Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo Univesrity, Cairo, Egypt

    Aboul Ella Hassanein

  3. Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE), Cairo, Egypt

    Mohamed Torky & Aboul Ella Hassanein

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  1. Faculty of Computers and Information, Information Technology Department, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

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  2. Dubai International Academic City, The British University in Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Khaled Shaalan

  3. Faculty of Computers and Informatics, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

    Tarek Gaber

  4. Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

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Torky, M., Meligy, A., Ibrahim, H., Hassanein, A.E. (2018). Colored Petri Net Model for Blocking Misleading Information Propagation in Online Social Networks. In: Hassanien, A., Shaalan, K., Gaber, T., Tolba, M. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2017. AISI 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 639. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64861-3_56

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