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A trust based model for recommendations of malignant people in social network

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Interactions are often viewed in the context of social and mental relations, but the reality cannot be captured accurately by measuring the stochastic of its dynamics. This paper demonstrates an operational framework to detect socio-technical attacks through contextual analysis of the social network. It emphasized on a correlation based on the centrality that can be measured through Karl Pearson, Jaccard and Katz, etc. Given this insight, hidden or suspicious nodes cannot be identified through above mentioned approaches. This framework provides guidelines for modeling a network into a layered set of interacting nodes with dense intra-connections and sparse inter-connections. We proposed a methodology to filter out a pool of hidden users operating covertly within the network. In this work, result has been validated by traversing the real time, most devastating 26/11 Mumbai attack terrorist network and recommends the malignant people against the ground truth of social network.

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  1. Government Engineering College, Munger, Bihar, India

    Govind Kumar Jha

  2. Bennett University, Greater Noida, India

    Hardeo Kumar Thakur

  3. Amity University, Patna, Bihar, India

    Preetish Ranjan

  4. Institute of Engineering and Technology, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow, India

    Manish Gaur

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Jha, G.K., Thakur, H.K., Ranjan, P. et al. A trust based model for recommendations of malignant people in social network. Int J Syst Assur Eng Manag 14, 415–428 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13198-022-01812-0

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