Hide Exposures by Removing Mastermind's External Sources on Social Network (Student Abstract)

Nilanjana Saha, Narayan Changder, Redha Taguelmimt, Samir Aknine, Animesh Dutta

AAAI 2025 pp. 29482-29483

doi:10.1609/AAAI.V39I28.35296 /aaai/2025/saha2025aaai-hide/

Abstract

On social media, it is easy to see how people are connected and find the leader, or mastermind of a network. The mastermind is responsible for the planning of the activities in the network. Hiding the mastermind is important to carry out these activities. This raises the question for the mastermind: How effectively can the mastermind hide his connections to avoid being found? We propose an efficient heuristic algorithm called HERMES (Hide Exposures by Removing Mastermind’s External Sources) to address this. Experiments on Facebook and Google networks show that HERMES hides the mastermind more effectively than the state-of-the-art, achieving time gains of 103 and 1397 seconds, respectively, and improving influence value by up to 11.11%.

AAAI Semantic Scholar

Cite

Text

Saha et al. "Hide Exposures by Removing Mastermind's External Sources on Social Network (Student Abstract)." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025. doi:10.1609/AAAI.V39I28.35296

Markdown

[Saha et al. "Hide Exposures by Removing Mastermind's External Sources on Social Network (Student Abstract)." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2025/saha2025aaai-hide/) doi:10.1609/AAAI.V39I28.35296

BibTeX

@inproceedings{saha2025aaai-hide,
  title     = {{Hide Exposures by Removing Mastermind's External Sources on Social Network (Student Abstract)}},
  author    = {Saha, Nilanjana and Changder, Narayan and Taguelmimt, Redha and Aknine, Samir and Dutta, Animesh},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2025},
  pages     = {29482-29483},
  doi       = {10.1609/AAAI.V39I28.35296},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2025/saha2025aaai-hide/}
}