Mathematical Problems in Engineering Security and Privacy Protection of Social Networks in Big Data Era Lead Guest Editor: Lixiang Li Guest Editors: Zonghua Zhang, Kaoru Ota, and Liu Yuhong Security and Privacy Protection of Social Networks in Big Data Era Mathematical Problems in Engineering Security and Privacy Protection of Social Networks in Big Data Era Lead Guest Editor: Lixiang Li Guest Editors: Zonghua Zhang, Kaoru Ota, and Liu Yuhong Copyright © 2018 Hindawi. All rights reserved. This is a special issue published in “Mathematical Problems in Engineering.” All articles are open access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 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