The exponential growth of social media and online social networks (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok) has changed the daily lives of millions of people. The ease to accessing, gathering and processing available data and the high societal and industrial interest in such data have attracted the interest of a large of research disciplines. This special issue has been focused mainly on Data Science and Artificial Intelligence techniques, and their application to social network analysis. The issue provides a total of 12 selected papers (out of 65) that represent latest advances and developments in these areas.

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社交网络分析的新研究方法和算法

社交媒体和在线社交网络（例如Facebook，Twitter，Instagram和TikTok）的指数级增长已经改变了数百万人的日常生活。易于访问，收集和处理可用数据的方法以及对此类数据的高度社会和工业兴趣吸引了众多研究学科的兴趣。本期主要集中在数据科学和人工智能技术及其在社交网络分析中的应用。本期总共提供了12篇精选论文（代表65篇论文），代表了这些领域的最新进展。