Call for Book Chapters--Social Networks Analysis and Mining: foundations and applications by Springer Verlag

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Call for Book Chapters--Social Networks Analysis and Mining:
foundations and applications by Springer Verlag

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The study of social networks originated in social and business
communities. In recent years, social network research has advanced
significantly; the development of sophisticated techniques for Social
Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM) has been highly influenced by the
online social Web sites, email logs, phone logs and instant messaging
systems, which are widely analyzed using graph theory and machine
learning techniques. People perceive the Web increasingly as a social
medium that fosters interaction among people, sharing of experiences
and knowledge, group activities, community formation and evolution.

This has led to a rising prominence of SNAM in academia, politics,
homeland security and business. This follows the pattern of known
entities of our society that have evolved into networks in which
actors are increasingly dependent on their structural embedding.

General areas of interest to the book include information science and
mathematics, communication studies, business and organizational
studies, sociology, psychology, anthropology, applied linguistics,
biology and medicine. More specialized topics within Social Network
Analysis and Mining include, but are not limited to:

* Anomaly detection in social network evolution
* Application of social network analysis
* Application of social network mining
* Communities discovery and analysis in large scale online
social networks
* Communities discovery and analysis in large scale offline
social networks
* Connection between biological similarities and social network
formulation
* Contextual social network analysis
* Contextual social network mining
* Crime data mining and network analysis
* Cyber anthropology
* Dark Web
* Data protection inside communities
* Detection of communities by document analysis
* Dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks
* Economical impact of social network discovery
* Evolution of patterns in the Web
* Evolution of communities in the Web
* Evolution of communities in organizations
* Geography of social networks
* Impact of social networks on recommendations systems
* Information acquisition and establishment of social relations
* Knowledge networks
* Influence of cultural aspects on the formation of communities
* Large-scale graph algorithms for social network analysis
* Misbehavior detection in communities
* Migration between communities
* Multi-agent based social network modeling and analysis
* Open source intelligence
* Pattern presentation for end-users and experts
* Personalization for search and for social interaction
* Preparing data for Web mining
* Political impact of social network discovery
* Privacy, security and civil liberty issues
* Recommendations for product purchase, information acquisition
and establishment of social relations
* Recommendation networks
* Scalability of social networks
* Scalability of Search algorithms on social networks
* Social and cultural anthropology
* Social geography
* Social psychology of information diffusion
* Temporal analysis on social networks topologies
* Visual representation of dynamic social networks
* Web mining algorithms
* Web communities

Tentative deadlines
Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining
to the above topics are solicited. Full paper submission deadline is
February 15, 2010. These papers will follow an academic review
process. Full paper manuscripts must be in English with a maximum
length of 20pages (using the LNCS template). Submissions should
include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), tel/
fax numbers, abstract, and postal address(es) on the first page.
Papers should be submitted to Nasrullah Memon via email to
me...@mmmi.sdu.dk by February 15, 2010. The attachment must be in
PDF.

Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness,
significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Authors should
certify that their papers represent substantially new previously
unpublished work.

[David Meggitt]

Am I the only one searching for meaning and purpose in SNAM by
reference to these book chapters?

Where is there room for commentary on:

Engagement
Ethics
Hearts and minds!
Value
Valuing?

For anything of value other than academic interest to emerge from
SNAM, a workshop / meeting of those affected is required with
attendees presented with an an external analysis
Such gatherings are time consuming.
Is in not far more cost effective to utilise valuable time by applying
value network analysis and be co-creative from the start,
incorporating both the social / informal networking and the formal
activities and their respective deliverables, which, last two, SNAM
ignores?

David Meggitt

[Sergej van Middendorp | Miles Ahead]

Hi David, I feel the same. Athough without a doubt important technical takes on the subject, I can make no connection to the terms mentioned. Where is the human spirit in all this, the aesthetic of imperfection inherent in the complexity of our work in organizations? Or at the least a balance between the technical and the human. ;-)

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[David Meggitt]

Yes, Sergej, you've expressed it better.
"SNA" type analysis has countless applications, but evoking humanity
is better achieved in other ways.
This is intriguing, though, as Rob Cross and Andrew Parker have an
excellent chapter on creating energy in organisations. in their book
(The hidden power of social networks)
They write p 66 "Analysing the energy in social networks can allow
managers to identify broad patterns. (Some would say unethically!)
Once these patterns are revealed, network participants can take
actions to create, or at least not to destroy, energy and enthusiasm."
My addition in brackets.
Therein appears to lie a flaw. SNA does not appear to engage and is a
synthetic tool, as we both feel.
Maybe that is all that is intended.

On Jan 28, 9:34 am, "Sergej van Middendorp | Miles Ahead"

<sergej.van.middend...@milesahead.eu> wrote:
> Hi David, I feel the same. Athough without a doubt important technical takes
> on the subject, I can make no connection to the terms mentioned. Where is
> the human spirit in all this, the aesthetic of imperfection inherent in the
> complexity of our work in organizations? Or at the least a balance between
> the technical and the human. ;-)
>

> > value-network...@googlegroups.com<value-networks%2Bunsubscribe@go oglegroups.com>

[Sergej van Middendorp | Miles Ahead]

Hi David, it is not so much the tool as who plays it in what way. As Cross and Parker point out, any tool could be used to work with human energy, even though some tools are better designed for that job than others ;-) VNA to me, easier than SNA, especially the techno house versions mentioned in the call for papers. ;-) Still, I could see people use VNA as well to become very technical indeed.

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