Description: Filling an important niche in the field, this book covers a range of aspects of social network data mining, including Structural Properties of Social Networks, Algorithms for Structural Discovery of Social Networks and Content Analysis in Social Networks.
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"Provides a comprehensive compendium of the state of the art in social network data mining. ... a very interesting book for computer science researchers and practitioners who work in the area of data mining and want to learn the state of the art in social network data analytics. The book provides good coverage of the subject area by focusing on the most popular research topics, and offers numerous bibliographic references that will guide readers who are interested in particular topics. I highly recommend this book." (Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis, ACM Computing Reviews, August, 2011)