Social networking big data: Opportunities, solutions, and challenges

Social networking big data is a collection of extremely big data sets with great diversity in social networks. Social networking big data is also a core component for the social influence analysis and the security. However, current work on social networking big data focuses on information processing, such as data mining and analysis. There are two important issues for social networking big data, one is how to conduct social network analysis; the other is how to ensure security. This special issue aims to solicit original research that discuss foundational theories, new technologies, security, trust and privacy of social networking big data; and to provide a review on the progress in opportunities, solutions, and challenges of social networking big data.