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. Ajith Abraham is Director of the Machine Intelligence Research (MIR) Labs, a global network of research laboratories with headquarters near Seattle, WA, USA. He is an author/co-author of more than 750 scientific publications. He is founding Chair of the International Conference of Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN), Chair of IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Soft Computing (since 2008), and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Computer Society representing Europe (since 2011). 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.