In the fast-growing scholarly big data background, social network technologies have recently
aroused widespread attention in academia and industry. The concept of academic social …

The Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining (ESNAM) is the first major
reference work to integrate fundamental concepts and research directions in the areas of …

Social networks provide a powerful abstraction of the structure and dynamics of diverse
kinds of people or people-to-technology interaction. Web 2.0 has enabled a new generation …

Social network analysis (SNA), in essence, is not a formal theory in social science, but rather
an approach for investigating social structures, which is why SNA is often referred to as …

Social networking is a concept that has existed for a long time; however, with the explosion
of the Internet, social networking has become a tool for people to connect and communicate …

Social network analysis (SNA) is a core pursuit of analyzing social networks today. In
addition to the usual statistical techniques of data analysis, these networks are investigated …

Over one billion people are currently using social media such as social websites (Facebook
Newsroom, 2015); consequently, numerous academic scholars have developed interest in …

Despite the spread and adoption of social network concepts outside of the academy and the
rising use of social network analysis across a number of disciplines, there is no general …

Social network analysis has gained significant attention in recent years, largely due to the
success of online social networking and media-sharing sites, and the consequent …

In this survey we review the literature and concepts of the data mining of social networks,
with special emphasis on their representation as a graph structure. The survey is divided …