Web Mining and Social Networking: Techniques and Applications

✍ Scribed by Guandong Xu, Yanchun Zhang, Lin Li (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 217
• Series: Web Information Systems Engineering and Internet Technologies Book Series 6
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines the techniques and applications involved in the Web Mining, Web Personalization and Recommendation and Web Community Analysis domains, including a detailed presentation of the principles, developed algorithms, and systems of the research in these areas. The applications of web mining, and the issue of how to incorporate web mining into web personalization and recommendation systems are also reviewed. Additionally, the volume explores web community mining and analysis to find the structural, organizational and temporal developments of web communities and reveal the societal sense of individuals or communities.

The volume will benefit both academic and industry communities interested in the techniques and applications of web search, web data management, web mining and web knowledge discovery, as well as web community and social network analysis.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-11
Theoretical Backgrounds....Pages 13-27
Algorithms and Techniques....Pages 29-68
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Web Content Mining....Pages 71-87
Web Linkage Mining....Pages 89-107
Web Usage Mining....Pages 109-142
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Extracting and Analyzing Web Social Networks....Pages 145-168
Web Mining and Recommendation Systems....Pages 169-188
Conclusions....Pages 189-194
Back Matter....Pages 189-189

✦ Subjects

Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Information Storage and Retrieval; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction