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Graph Mining Applications to Social Network Analysis

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Managing and Mining Graph Data

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The prosperity of Web 2.0 and social media brings about many diverse social networks of unprecedented scales, which present new challenges for more effec- tive graph-mining techniques. In this chapter, we present some graph patterns that are commonly observed in large-scale social networks. As most networks demonstrate strong community structures, one basic task in social network anal- ysis is community detection which uncovers the group membership of actors in a network. We categorize and survey representative graph mining approaches and evaluation strategies for community detection. We then present and discuss some research issues for future exploration.

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Tang, L., Liu, H. (2010). Graph Mining Applications to Social Network Analysis. In: Aggarwal, C., Wang, H. (eds) Managing and Mining Graph Data. Advances in Database Systems, vol 40. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6045-0_16

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