Computational Social Network Analysis: Trends, Tools and Research Advances

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 of Web-based communities, social networks, and folksonomies to facilitate collaboration among different communities.This informative book provides a unique insight into the social behaviour of animals (including the study of animal tracks and learning by members of the same species). The reader is provided with web-based evidence of social interaction, perceptual learning, information granulation and the behaviour of humans and affinities between web-based social networks. Featuring the latest advances of research in intelligent social networks, different techniques are applied in real-world scenarios. This book illustrates how Web 2.0 can be used to create more opportunities to investigate the dynamics and structure of Web-based social networks.This comprehensive text is a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners.