Social Media Modeling And Computing

Download or read book Social Media Modeling and Computing written by Steven C.H. Hoi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely text/reference presents the latest advances in various aspects of social media modeling and social media computing research. Gathering together superb research from a range of established international conferences and workshops, the editors coherently organize and present each of the topics in relation to the basic principles and practices of social media modeling and computing. Individual chapters can be also be used as self-contained references on the material covered. Topics and features: presents contributions from an international selection of preeminent experts in the field; discusses topics on social-media content analysis; examines social-media system design and analysis, and visual analytic tools for event analysis; investigates access control for privacy and security issues in social networks; describes emerging applications of social media, for music recommendation, automatic image annotation, and the analysis and improvement of photo-books.