Social networking and community behavior modeling [electronic resource] : qualitative and quantitative measures / Maytham Safar and Khaled A. Mahdi, editors.
Publication details: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), 2012.Description: electronic texts (323 p.) : digital filesISBN:- 9781613504451 (ebook)
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- HM741 .S6343 2012e
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1. Social networks and communities: from traditional society to the virtual sphere / Francesca Odella -- 2. Network perspective on structures related to communities / Alvin Wolfe -- 3. Civic engagement and communication technology networks / Philip J. Salem -- 4. The social construction of new cultural models through information and communication technologies / Almudena Moreno -- 5. From virtual to the simulated world: an agent-based model of friendship network in Second Life / Sadaf Alvi and Shah Jamal Alam -- 6. Analysis of success factors in social networking website development / Zanita Zahari and Eric Pardede -- 7. Knowledge discovery from online communities / Luca Cagliero and Alessandro Fiori -- 8. Information diffusion in social networks / Dmitry Zinoviev -- 9. Social network, information flow and decision-making efficiency: a comparison of humans and animals / C�edric Sueur -- 10. Extracting and measuring relationship strength in social networks / Steven Gustafson and Abha Moitra -- 11. Bringing qualitative and quantitative data together: collecting network data with the help of the software tool VennMaker / Markus Gamper, Michael Sch�onhuth and Michael Kronenwett -- 12. Observing the evolution of a learning community using social network analysis / Francesca Grippa, Marco De Maggio and Angelo Corallo -- 13. Social networks and terrorism / David Knoke -- 14. Social network sites: modeling the new business-customer relationship / Pedro Isa�ias, Sara P�ifano and Paula Miranda -- 15. Community structure extraction for social networks / Helen Hadush ... [et al.] -- 16. Towards a bespoke framework for eliciting consumer satisfaction in Second Life / Mitul Shukla, Marc Conrad and Nik Bessis -- 17. Finding similar users in Facebook / Pasquale De Meo, Emilio Ferrara and Giacomo Fiumara.
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"This book provides a clear and consolidated view of current social network models, exploring new methods for modeling, characterizing, and constructing social networks"--Provided by publisher.
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