Social Networks: Analysis and Case Studies

✍ Scribed by Şule Gündüz-Öğüdücü, A. Şima Etaner-Uyar (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wien
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 266
• Series: Lecture Notes in Social Networks
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The present volume provides a comprehensive resource for practitioners and researchers alike-both those new to the field as well as those who already have some experience. The work covers Social Network Analysis theory and methods with a focus on current applications and case studies applied in various domains such as mobile networks, security, machine learning and health. With the increasing popularity of Web 2.0, social media has become a widely used communication platform. Parallel to this development, Social Network Analysis gained in importance as a research field, while opening up many opportunities in different application domains. Forming a bridge between theory and applications makes this work appealing to both academics and practitioners as well as graduate students.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Introduction to Social Networks: Analysis and Case Studies....Pages 1-18
Ranking Authors on the Web: A Semantic AuthorRank....Pages 19-40
Detecting Neutral Nodes in a Network of Heterogeneous Agent Based System....Pages 41-60
Global Structure in Social Networks with Directed Typed Edges....Pages 61-81
Social Networks and Group Effectiveness: The Role of External Network Ties....Pages 83-104
Overlapping Community Discovery Methods: A Survey....Pages 105-125
Classification in Social Networks....Pages 127-148
Experiences Using BDS: A Crawler for Social Internetworking Scenarios....Pages 149-177
Privacy and Ethical Issues in Social Network Analysis....Pages 179-231
Social Media: The Evolution of e-Health Services....Pages 233-248
Back Matter....Pages 249-249

✦ Subjects

Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences; Complex Networks; Methodology of the Social Sciences