Emerging Research Challenges and Opportunities in Computational Social Network Analysis and Mining

Emerging Research Challenges and Opportunities in Computational Social Network Analysis and Mining
Author: Nitin Agarwal
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2018-09-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319941054

The contributors in this book share, exchange, and develop new concepts, ideas, principles, and methodologies in order to advance and deepen our understanding of social networks in the new generation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) enabled by Web 2.0, also referred to as social media, to help policy-making. This interdisciplinary work provides a platform for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students from sociology, behavioral science, computer science, psychology, cultural studies, information systems, operations research and communication to share, exchange, learn, and develop new concepts, ideas, principles, and methodologies. Emerging Research Challenges and Opportunities in Computational Social Network Analysis and Mining will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, and graduate students from the various disciplines listed above. The text facilitates the dissemination of investigations of the dynamics and structure of web based social networks. The book can be used as a reference text for advanced courses on Social Network Analysis, Sociology, Communication, Organization Theory, Cyber-anthropology, Cyber-diplomacy, and Information Technology and Justice.

Emerging Research in Data Engineering Systems and Computer Communications

Emerging Research in Data Engineering Systems and Computer Communications
Author: P. Venkata Krishna
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 675
Release: 2020-02-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9811501351

This book gathers selected papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Computing, Communications and Data Engineering, held at Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam, Tirupati, India from 1 to 2 Feb 2019. Chiefly discussing major issues and challenges in data engineering systems and computer communications, the topics covered include wireless systems and IoT, machine learning, optimization, control, statistics, and social computing.

Opportunities and Challenges for Computational Social Science Methods

Opportunities and Challenges for Computational Social Science Methods
Author: Abanoz, Enes
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2022-03-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1799885550

We are living in a digital era in which most of our daily activities take place online. This has created a big data phenomenon that has been subject to scientific research with increasingly available tools and processing power. As a result, a growing number of social science scholars are using computational methods for analyzing social behavior. To further the area, these evolving methods must be made known to sociological research scholars. Opportunities and Challenges for Computational Social Science Methods focuses on the implementation of social science methods and the opportunities and challenges of these methods. This book sheds light on the infrastructure that should be built to gain required skillsets, the tools used in computational social sciences, and the methods developed and applied into computational social sciences. Covering topics like computational communication, ecological cognition, and natural language processing, this book is an essential resource for researchers, data scientists, scholars, students, professors, sociologists, and academicians.

Disinformation, Misinformation, and Fake News in Social Media

Disinformation, Misinformation, and Fake News in Social Media
Author: Kai Shu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2020-06-17
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030426998

This book serves as a convenient entry point for researchers, practitioners, and students to understand the problems and challenges, learn state-of-the-art solutions for their specific needs, and quickly identify new research problems in their domains. The contributors to this volume describe the recent advancements in three related parts: (1) user engagements in the dissemination of information disorder; (2) techniques on detecting and mitigating disinformation; and (3) trending issues such as ethics, blockchain, clickbaits, etc. This edited volume will appeal to students, researchers, and professionals working on disinformation, misinformation and fake news in social media from a unique lens.

Security in IoT Social Networks

Security in IoT Social Networks
Author: Fadi Al-Turjman
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2020-11-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0128216034

Security in IoT Social Networks takes a deep dive into security threats and risks, focusing on real-world social and financial effects. Mining and analyzing enormously vast networks is a vital part of exploiting Big Data. This book provides insight into the technological aspects of modeling, searching, and mining for corresponding research issues, as well as designing and analyzing models for resolving such challenges. The book will help start-ups grow, providing research directions concerning security mechanisms and protocols for social information networks. The book covers structural analysis of large social information networks, elucidating models and algorithms and their fundamental properties. Moreover, this book includes smart solutions based on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning for enhancing the performance of social information network security protocols and models. This book is a detailed reference for academicians, professionals, and young researchers. The wide range of topics provides extensive information and data for future research challenges in present-day social information networks. - Provides several characteristics of social, network, and physical security associated with social information networks - Presents the security mechanisms and events related to social information networks - Covers emerging topics, such as network information structures like on-line social networks, heterogeneous and homogeneous information networks, and modern information networks - Includes smart solutions based on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning for enhancing the performance of social information network security protocols and models

Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Data Engineering

Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Data Engineering
Author: Nabendu Chaki
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2020-12-20
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9811587671

This book is a collection of high-quality research work on cutting-edge technologies and the most-happening areas of computational intelligence and data engineering. It includes selected papers from the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Data Engineering (ICCIDE 2020). It covers various topics, including collective intelligence, intelligent transportation systems, fuzzy systems, Bayesian network, ant colony optimization, data privacy and security, data mining, data warehousing, big data analytics, cloud computing, natural language processing, swarm intelligence and speech processing.

Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing

Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing
Author: Jie Tang
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 878
Release: 2019-10-02
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030322335

This two-volume set of LNAI 11838 and LNAI 11839 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2019, held in Dunhuang, China, in October 2019. The 85 full papers and 56 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 492 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Conversational Bot/QA/IR; Knowledge graph/IE; Machine Learning for NLP; Machine Translation; NLP Applications; NLP for Social Network; NLP Fundamentals; Text Mining; Short Papers; Explainable AI Workshop; Student Workshop: Evaluation Workshop.

Combating Fake News with Computational Intelligence Techniques

Combating Fake News with Computational Intelligence Techniques
Author: Mohamed Lahby
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2021-12-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030900878

This book presents the latest cutting-edge research, theoretical methods, and novel applications in the field of computational intelligence techniques and methods for combating fake news. Fake news is everywhere. Despite the efforts of major social network players such as Facebook and Twitter to fight disinformation, miracle cures and conspiracy theories continue to rain down on the net. Artificial intelligence can be a bulwark against the diversity of fake news on the Internet and social networks. This book discusses new models, practical solutions, and technological advances related to detecting and analyzing fake news based on computational intelligence models and techniques, to help decision-makers, managers, professionals, and researchers design new paradigms considering the unique opportunities associated with computational intelligence techniques. Further, the book helps readers understand computational intelligence techniques combating fake news in a systematic and straightforward way.