State of the Art Applications of Social Network Analysis

Social network analysis increasingly bridges the discovery of patterns in diverse areas of study as more data becomes available and complex. Yet the construction of huge networks from large data often requires entirely different approaches for analysis including; graph theory, statistics, machine learning and data mining. This work covers frontier studies on social network analysis and mining from different perspectives such as social network sites, financial data, e-mails, forums, academic research funds, XML technology, blog content, community detection and clique finding, prediction of user’s- behavior, privacy in social network analysis, mobility from spatio-temporal point of view, agent technology and political parties in parliament. These topics will be of interest to researchers and practitioners from different disciplines including, but not limited to, social sciences and engineering.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 A Randomized Approach for Structural and Message Based Private Friend Recommendation in Online Social Networks
Chapter 2 Context Based Semantic Relations in Tweets
Chapter 3 Fast Exact and Approximate Computation of Betweenness Centrality in Social Networks
Chapter 4 An Agent-Based Modeling Framework for Social Network Simulation
Chapter 5 Early Stage Conversation Catalysts on Entertainment-Based Web Forums
Chapter 6 Predicting Users Behaviours in Distributed Social Networks Using Community Analysis
Chapter 7 What Should We Protect? Defining Differential Privacy for Social Network Analysis
Chapter 8 Complex Network Analysis of Research Funding: A Case Study of NSF Grants
Chapter 9 A Density-Based Approach to Detect Community Evolutionary Events in Online Social Networks
Chapter 10 @Rank: Personalized Centrality Measure for Email Communication Networks
Chapter 11 Twitter Sentiment Analysis: How to Hedge Your Bets in the Stock Markets
Chapter 12 The Impact of Measurement Time on Subgroup Detection in Online Communities
Chapter 13 Spatial and Temporal Evaluation of Network-Based Analysis of Human Mobility
Chapter 14 An Ant Based Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Maximum Clique Problem in Social Networks
Chapter 15 XEngine: An XML Search Engine for Social Groups
Chapter 16 Size, Diversity and Components in the Network Around an Entrepreneur: Shaped by Culture and Shaping Embeddedness of Firm Relations
Chapter 17 Content Mining of Microblogs