Handbook of Social Networks

Technologies and Applications

Springer

Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Borko Furht

Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

 

Potential contributors:

Send an email to borko@cse.fau.edu

 
   

Springer is launching a new Handbook of Social Networks Technologies and Applications with the main objective to provide a variety of research and survey articles (18-36 pages) contributed by world experts in the field. Springer is committed to create a successful and unique Handbook in this field and therefore it intends to support it with a large marketing and advertising effort. Potential contributors should express their interest by sending an email to Borko Furht at borko@cse.fau.edu.

DESCRIPTION

Social networking is a concept that has been around for a long time; however with the explosition of the Internet, social netwrking has become a tool for connecting people and allowing their communications in the ways that was previously impossible. Firthermore, the recent development of Web 2.0 has provided for many new applications such as Myspace, Facebook, LinkedIn, and many others.

The objective of this Handbook is to provide comprehensive guidelines on the current and future trends in social network technologies and applications. The book will include contributions from the world experts in the field of social networks both from academia and industry. A number of crucial topics will be covered including We, software and networking technologies for social networks, social networks analysis, creation, search, and mining techniques, mobile social networks, visualiaztion techniques for social networks, and others.

 

SCHEDULE  
1. Contributors solicited and TOC defined   August 15 - September 31, 2009
2. Articles/entries delivered       March 1 , 2010
3. First draft of Handbook completed   April 1 , 2010
4. Handbook delivered to the Publisher  April 15, 2010
5. Handbook published  July 15, 2010

 

Links to important documents

 

 


TOPICS OF INTERESTS
(not limited to)

 
  • Social media analysis and organization
  • Social network construction
  • Privacy in online social networks
  • Network Infrastructures for social networks
  • Social network analysis
  • Social media creation
  • Social media search
  • Web mining techniques for online social networks analysis
  • Social media benchmarks
  • Social media-based advertisment
  • Mobile social networking
  • Social networks in education environments
  • Visualization of online social networks
  • Intelligent social network modeling
  • Spectral characterization of social network communities
  • Semantic models for social networks
  • Multimedia social networks
  • Multi-modal social networks
  • Social network profiles and policies
  • Learning social networks
  • Languages for querying and creating data in social networks
  • Fuzzy social networks
  • Standards for social networks
  • The future of the online social networks