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Broad Learning Through Fusions

An Application on Social Networks

  • This book provides an introduction to broad learning, focusing on the fundamental concepts, learning tasks, and methodologies to build learning models for data fusion, and knowledge discovery.
  • It examines how the introduced broad learning approaches can be applied for effective data fusion and knowledge discovery on online social networks.
  • The book Introduces the social network alignment task and learning algorithms based on three different learning settings.
  • It provides a comprehensive introduction to the several well-known knowledge discovery problems with the fused information from multiple online social networks

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Background Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Broad Learning Introduction

      • Jiawei Zhang, Philip S. Yu
      Pages 3-17
    3. Machine Learning Overview

      • Jiawei Zhang, Philip S. Yu
      Pages 19-75
    4. Social Network Overview

      • Jiawei Zhang, Philip S. Yu
      Pages 77-126
  3. Information Fusion: Social Network Alignment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
    2. Supervised Network Alignment

      • Jiawei Zhang, Philip S. Yu
      Pages 129-164
    3. Unsupervised Network Alignment

      • Jiawei Zhang, Philip S. Yu
      Pages 165-202
    4. Semi-supervised Network Alignment

      • Jiawei Zhang, Philip S. Yu
      Pages 203-226
  4. Broad Learning: Knowledge Discovery Across Aligned Networks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227
    2. Link Prediction

      • Jiawei Zhang, Philip S. Yu
      Pages 229-273
    3. Community Detection

      • Jiawei Zhang, Philip S. Yu
      Pages 275-314
    4. Information Diffusion

      • Jiawei Zhang, Philip S. Yu
      Pages 315-349
    5. Viral Marketing

      • Jiawei Zhang, Philip S. Yu
      Pages 351-384
    6. Network Embedding

      • Jiawei Zhang, Philip S. Yu
      Pages 385-413
  5. Future Directions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 415-415
    2. Frontier and Future Directions

      • Jiawei Zhang, Philip S. Yu
      Pages 417-419

About this book

This book offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to broad learning, one of the novel learning problems studied in data mining and machine learning. Broad learning aims at fusing multiple large-scale information sources of diverse varieties together, and carrying out synergistic data mining tasks across these fused sources in one unified analytic. This book takes online social networks as an application example to introduce the latest alignment and knowledge discovery algorithms. Besides the overview of broad learning, machine learning and social network basics, specific topics covered in this book include network alignment, link prediction, community detection, information diffusion, viral marketing, and network embedding.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA

    Jiawei Zhang

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA

    Philip S. Yu

About the authors

Jiawei Zhang is Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Florida State University. In 2017 he founded IFM Lab, a research oriented academic laboratory, providing the latest information on fusion learning and data mining research works and application tools to both academia and industry.

Philip S. Yu is Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago and also holds the Wexler Chair in Information and Technology. He was manager of the Software Tools and Techniques group at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Dr. Yu has published more than 500 papers in refereed journals and conferences. He holds or has applied for more than 300 US patents. 





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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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