This book is devoted to recent progress in social network analysis with a high focus on community detection and evolution. The eleven chapters cover the identification of cohesive groups, core components and key players either in static or dynamic networks of different kinds and levels of heterogeneity. Other important topics in social network analysis such as influential detection and maximization, information propagation, user behavior analysis, as well as network modeling and visualization are also presented. Many studies are validated through real social networks such as Twitter. This edited work will appeal to researchers, practitioners and students interested in the latest developments of social network analysis.
"This volume presents interesting approaches in relation to communities interacting via social networks ... . The volume may be of interest to specialists mining social network data and to some advanced students wishing to further their research. Each chapter has its own references, and the collective work has a common glossary and index." (L.-F. Pau, Computing Reviews, March, 2016)