data mining

This work represents a survey of the social network analysis problem. There are four main approaches: structural, resource-based, regulatory, and dynamic. To solve the problems in social network analysis, the following methods are used: graph and stochastic models, models of network evolution, methods involving ontologies, structural and relational models, machine...

This work focuses on the analysis of online social networking services. We examine several formal definitions of various characteristics (numerical and structural) and introduce appropriate concepts, models and methods that could be useful for the analysis of information obtained from social networks. Preference analysis is proposed to be used to...