{"title":"Entropy Based Identification of Fake Profiles in Social Network: An Application of Cyberbullying","authors":"Geetika Sarna, M. Bhatia","doi":"10.4018/IJVCSN.2017100102","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Cyberbullyingisafeloniousactcarriedoutagainstthevictimbysendingharassing/embarrassing/ abusinginformationonline.Normallyoffenderscreatefakeprofilesinordertohidetheiridentityfor unscrupulousactivities.Assumingafakeidentityisveryharmfulastherealpictureoftheoffender isnotvisible,andalsoitcanbecomedifficulttoentrapthem.Sometimes,sometrustworthyfriends canalsotakeadvantageofthefakeidentityinordertoharmthevictim.Culpritscanrevealvictim’s personalinformationlikefinancialdetails,personalhistory,family,etc.,andalongwithit,hecan harass,threatenorblackmailthevictimusingfakeprofilesandpermeatesthatinformationonthe socialnetwork.So,itisnecessarytoresolvethisissue.Inthisarticle,theauthorsusedtheconcept ofentropyandcrossentropytoidentifyfakeprofilesasentropyworksonthedegreeofuncertainty. Also,thisarticleshowsthecomparisonofproposedmethodwiththeexistingclassifiers. KEywoRdS Cross Entropy, Cyberbullying, Entropy, Fake Profiles, Jaro-Winkler Distance, Levenshtein Distance","PeriodicalId":90871,"journal":{"name":"International journal of virtual communities and social networking","volume":"26 1","pages":"18-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International journal of virtual communities and social networking","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJVCSN.2017100102","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}