Techniques and Tools for Designing an Online Social Network Platform

• Main Author: Karampelas, Panagiotis. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Social Networks, 3
• Subjects: Computer science.; Social sciences > Data processing.; Computer Science.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Complex Networks.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0787-4

Following the introduction of Myspace, Linkedin and Facebook, social networks have become part of peoples everyday life. New online social networks appear almost daily developed to attract the attention of Internet users.� However, design and implementation standards and guidelines are often sacrif...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Authors Biography
• Part I  Introduction
• Chapter 1.�From Virtual Communities to Social Networks
• Part II  Requirements Analysis and Design
• Chapter 2.�Identifying Users and Their Tasks
• Chapter 3.�Requirement Identification and Analysis Techniques
• Chapter 4.�Design Principles and Guidelines
• Part III  Implementation and Visualization
• Chapter 5. Implementation Techniques
• Chapter 6.�Existing Development Platforms
• Chapter 7.�Visualization of Social Networks
• Part IV  Evaluation and Network Mining
• Chapter 8.�Usability Evaluation Techniques
• Chapter 9.�Social Network Analysis and Mining
• Part V  Conclusions and Open Issues
• Chapter 10.�Conclusions
• Acknowledgements
• References. Subject Index.