Social networks provide a powerful abstraction of the structure and dynamics of people-to-technology interaction. Comparing social animal interaction with web-based social interaction, this volume explores human behavior in web-based social networks.

This essential reference features the latest advances of research in intelligent social networks and includes applications of different techniques in real-world scenarios, providing the reader with a deeper understanding of the topic

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Dr. Aboul-Ella Hassanien is a Professor in the Faculty of Computers and Information at Cairo University, Egypt, and Visiting Professor at the College of Business Administration, Kuwait University.
Dr. Aboul-Ella Hassanien is a Professor in the Faculty of Computers and Information at Cairo University, Egypt, and Visiting Professor at the College of Business Administration, Kuwait University.

Inhalt
Social Network Mining Tools.- An Overview of Methods for Virtual Social Networks Analysis.- Discovering Sets of Key Players in Social Networks.- Toward 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.- Social Network Evolution.- Network Evolution: Theory and Mechanisms.- 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: Choosing Collaborators by Skill, Acquaintance and Trust.- Web Communities Defined by Web Page Content.- Extended Generalized Blockmodeling for Compound Communities and External Actors.- Analyzing Collaborations Through Content-Based Social Networks.- Social Network Applications.- IA-Regional-Radio Social Network for Radio Recommendation.- On the Use of Social Networks in Web Services: Application to the Discovery Stage.- Friends with Faces: How Social Networks Can Enhance Face Recognition and Vice Versa.