The use of online social networks has made significant progress in recent years as the use
of the Internet has become widespread worldwide as the technological infrastructure and the …

Today the World Wide Web is undergoing a subtle but profound shift to Web 2.0, to become
more of a social web. The use of collaborative technologies such as blogs and social …

The study of social media networks has evolved in the last two decades into an
interdisciplinary scientific area of research. Network analysis of social media data emerged …

Abstract Online Social Network's (OSN) considered a spark that burst the Big Data era. The
unfolding of every event, breaking new or trend flows in real time inside OSN triggering a …

Multilayer networks, in particular multilayer social networks, where users belong to and
interact on different networks at the same time, are an active research area in social network …

This paper presents an important concept of Internet of People, a social network analysis
approach to perform Big Data Analytics. The paper describes the development …

Social network based applications have experienced exponential growth in recent years.
One of the reasons for this rise is that this application domain offers a particularly fertile …

Social networks have known an important development since the appearance of web 2.0
platforms. This leads to a growing need for social network mining and social network …

Identification and ranking of influential users in social networks for the sake of news
spreading and advertising has recently become an attractive field of research. Given the …

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 …