Computational Social Network Analysis Trends, Tools and Research Advances /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Abraham, Ajith. (Editor), Hassanien, Aboul-Ella. (Editor), Sǹel, Vaclav. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2010.
• Series: Computer Communications and Networks,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer Communication Networks.; Database management.; Computer Science.; Database Management.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Computers and Society.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-229-0

Social networks provide a powerful abstraction of the structure and dynamics of diverse kinds of people or people-to-technology interaction. Web 2.0 has enabled a new generation of web-based communities, social networks, and folksonomies to facilitate collaboration among different communities. This...

Table of Contents:

• An Overview of Methods for Virtual Social Networks Analysis
• Discovering Sets of Key Players in Social Networks
• Towards Self-organizing Search Systems
• DISSECT: Data-Intensive Socially Similar Evolving Community Tracker
• Clustering of Blog Sites using Collective Wisdom
• Exploratory Analysis of the Social Network of Researchers in Inductive Logic Programming
• Information Flow in Systems of Interacting Agents as a Function of Local and Global Topological Features
• Network Evolution
• Vmap-Layout, a Layout Algorithm for Drawing Scientograms
• Nature-inspired Dissemination of Information in P2P Networks
• Analysis and Visualization of Relations in eLearning
• Interdisciplinary Matchmaking
• Web Communities Defined by Web Page Content
• Extended Generalized Block Modeling for Compound Communities and External Actors
• Analyzing Collaborations Through Content-Based Social Networks
• IA-Regional-Radio
• On the Use of Social Networks in Web Services
• Friends with Faces.