Analysis and Evaluation of Social Network Anomaly Detection

As social networks become more prevalent, there is significant interest in studying these network data, the focus often being on detecting anomalous events. This area of research is referred to as social network surveillance or social network change detection. While there are a variety of proposed methods suitable for different monitoring situations, two important issues have yet to be completely addressed in network surveillance literature. First, performance assessments using simulated data to evaluate the statistical performance of a particular method. Second, the study of aggregated data in social network surveillance. The research presented tackle these issues in two parts, evaluation of a popular anomaly detection method and investigation of the effects of different aggregation levels on network anomaly detection.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph. D.

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Statistics

Department dc:contributor.department

Statistics

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2017

Author dc:creator

• Zhao, Meng John

Chairs dc:contributor.committeechair

• Woodall, William H.
• Driscoll, Anne R.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Stevens, Nathaniel T.
• Fricker, Ronald D. Jr.
• Sengupta, Srijan

• change detection
• Erdos-Renyi model
• moving window
• social network
• standardization
• statistical process monitoring
• aggregation
• DCSBM
• scan method

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:12688

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/79849