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Social networking and community behavior modeling qualitative and quantitative measures /

"This book provides a clear and consolidated view of current social network models, exploring new methods for modeling, characterizing, and constructing social networks"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: IGI Global.
Other Authors: Safar, Maytham., Mahdi, Khaled A., 1970-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), 2012.
Subjects:
Social networks.
Business social networks
Information diffusion
Mobile social networks
Models of social networks
Robustness of social networks
Virtual online communities
Social network evolution
Social networks and terrorism
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Social networks and communities: from traditional society to the virtual sphere / Francesca Odella
  • 2. Network perspective on structures related to communities / Alvin Wolfe
  • 3. Civic engagement and communication technology networks / Philip J. Salem
  • 4. The social construction of new cultural models through information and communication technologies / Almudena Moreno
  • 5. From virtual to the simulated world: an agent-based model of friendship network in Second Life / Sadaf Alvi and Shah Jamal Alam
  • 6. Analysis of success factors in social networking website development / Zanita Zahari and Eric Pardede
  • 7. Knowledge discovery from online communities / Luca Cagliero and Alessandro Fiori
  • 8. Information diffusion in social networks / Dmitry Zinoviev
  • 9. Social network, information flow and decision-making efficiency: a comparison of humans and animals / Cédric Sueur
  • 10. Extracting and measuring relationship strength in social networks / Steven Gustafson and Abha Moitra
  • 11. Bringing qualitative and quantitative data together: collecting network data with the help of the software tool VennMaker / Markus Gamper, Michael Schönhuth and Michael Kronenwett
  • 12. Observing the evolution of a learning community using social network analysis / Francesca Grippa, Marco De Maggio and Angelo Corallo
  • 13. Social networks and terrorism / David Knoke
  • 14. Social network sites: modeling the new business-customer relationship / Pedro Isaías, Sara Pífano and Paula Miranda
  • 15. Community structure extraction for social networks / Helen Hadush ... [et al.]
  • 16. Towards a bespoke framework for eliciting consumer satisfaction in Second Life / Mitul Shukla, Marc Conrad and Nik Bessis
  • 17. Finding similar users in Facebook / Pasquale De Meo, Emilio Ferrara and Giacomo Fiumara.

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