Advances in Social Network Mining and Analysis Second International Workshop, SNAKDD 2008, Las Vegas, NV, USA, August 24-27, 2008 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Giles, Lee (Editor), Smith, Marc (Editor), Yen, John (Editor), Zhang, Haizheng (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5498
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Database management.; Data mining.; Information storage and retrieval.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer Science.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Database Management.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Computer Communication Networks.

This year’s volume of Advances in Social Network Analysis contains the p- ceedings for the Second International Workshop on Social Network Analysis (SNAKDD 2008). The annual workshop co-locates with the ACM SIGKDD - ternational Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). The second SNAK...

Table of Contents:

• Leveraging Label-Independent Features for Classification in Sparsely Labeled Networks: An Empirical Study
• Community Detection Using a Measure of Global Influence
• Communication Dynamics of Blog Networks
• Finding Spread Blockers in Dynamic Networks
• Social Network Mining with Nonparametric Relational Models
• Using Friendship Ties and Family Circles for Link Prediction
• Information Theoretic Criteria for Community Detection.