Social networks were first investigated in social, educational and business areas. Academic interest in this field though has been growing since the mid twentieth century, given the increasing interaction among people, data dissemination and exchange of information. As such, the development and evaluation of new techniques for social network analysis and mining (SNAM) is a current key research area for Internet services and applications. Key topics include contextualized analysis of social and information networks, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding, economics in networks, extraction and treatment of social data, mining techniques, modeling of user behavior and social networks, and software ecosystems. These topics have important areas of application in a wide range of fields, such as academia, politics, security, business, marketing, and science.

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社会网络分析和挖掘专题系列

社交网络首先在社会，教育和商业领域进行了调查。自二十世纪中叶以来，由于人与人之间不断增加的互动，数据传播和信息交换，对此领域的学术兴趣一直在增长。这样，用于社交网络分析和挖掘（SNAM）的新技术的开发和评估是Internet服务和应用程序的当前关键研究领域。关键主题包括社会和信息网络的情境分析，众包和众筹，网络经济学，社会数据的提取和处理，挖掘技术，用户行为和社交网络建模以及软件生态系统。这些主题在学术界，政治，安全，商业，市场营销和科学等广泛领域具有重要的应用领域。