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Computational Social Networks

Mining and Visualization

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  • Presents the latest advances in CSNs, and illustrates how organizations can gain a competitive advantage from a better understanding of complex social networks
  • Discusses the design and use of a wide range of computational tools and software for social network analysis, with a focus on knowledge discovery and visualization of complex networks
  • Provides experience reports, survey articles, and intelligence techniques and theories relating to specific problems in network technology

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Mining

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
  3. Mining

    1. Social Networks Analysis: Tools, Measures and Visualization

      • Neveen Ghali, Mrutyunjaya Panda, Aboul Ella Hassanien, Ajith Abraham, Vaclav Snasel
      Pages 3-23
    2. Performance Evaluation of Social Network Using Data Mining Techniques

      • Mrutyunjaya Panda, Ajith Abraham, Sachidananda Dehuri, Manas Ranjan Patra
      Pages 25-49
    3. Bio-inspired Clustering and Data Diffusion in Machine Social Networks

      • Iva Bojic, Tomislav Lipic, Vedran Podobnik
      Pages 51-79
    4. Mining Geo-Referenced Community-Contributed Multimedia Data

      • Milan Mirkovic, Dubravko Culibrk, Vladimir Crnojevic
      Pages 81-102
    5. Correlation Mining for Web News Information Retrieval

      • Jing Liu, Zechao Li, Hanqing Lu
      Pages 103-128
    6. Mining Micro-blogs: Opportunities and Challenges

      • Yang Liao, Masud Moshtaghi, Bo Han, Shanika Karunasekera, Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, Timothy Baldwin et al.
      Pages 129-159
    7. Reliable Online Social Network Data Collection

      • Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, Iain Parris, Tristan Henderson
      Pages 183-210
    8. Knowledge Mining from the Twitter Social Network: The Case of Barack Obama

      • Marco Guidi, Igor Ruiz-Agundez, Izaskun Canga-Sanchez
      Pages 211-229
  4. Visualization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-231
  5. Visualization

    1. Mining and Visualizing Research Networks Using the Artefact-Actor-Network Approach

      • Wolfgang Reinhardt, Adrian Wilke, Matthias Moi, Hendrik Drachsler, Peter Sloep
      Pages 233-267
    2. Intelligent-Based Visual Pattern Clustering for Storage Layouts in Virtual Environments

      • Shao-Shin Hung, Chih-Ming Chiu, Tsou Tsun Fu, Jung Tzung Chen, Jyh-Jong Tsay
      Pages 269-290
    3. Extraction and Analysis of Facebook Friendship Relations

      • Salvatore Catanese, Pasquale De Meo, Emilio Ferrara, Giacomo Fiumara, Alessandro Provetti
      Pages 291-324
    4. Implementation of Social Network Analysis for Web Cache Content Mining Visualization

      • Sarina Sulaiman, Siti Mariyam Shamsuddin, Ajith Abraham
      Pages 345-376
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 377-385

About this book

This book is the third of three volumes that illustrate the concept of social networks from a computational point of view. The book contains contributions from a international selection of world-class experts, with a specific focus on knowledge discovery and visualization of complex networks (the other two volumes review Tools, Perspectives, and Applications, and Security and Privacy in CSNs). Topics and features: presents the latest advances in CSNs, and illustrates how organizations can gain a competitive advantage from a better understanding of complex social networks; discusses the design and use of a wide range of computational tools and software for social network analysis; describes simulations of social networks, and the representation and analysis of social networks, highlighting methods for the data mining of CSNs; provides experience reports, survey articles, and intelligence techniques and theories relating to specific problems in network technology.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Auburn, USA

    Ajith Abraham

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