Introduction to Semantic Web: Limitations of current Web - Development of Semantic Web - Emergence of the Social Web - Social Network analysis: Development of Social Network Analysis - Key concepts and measures in network analysis - Electronic sources for network analysis: Electronic discussion networks, Blogs and online communities - Web-based networks - Applications of Social Network Analysis.
Ontology and their role in the Semantic Web: Ontology-based knowledge Representation - Ontology languages for the Semantic Web: Resource Description Framework - Web Ontology Language - Modelling and aggregating social network data: State-of-the-art in network data representation - Ontological representation of social individuals - Ontological representation of social relationships - Aggregating and reasoning with social network data - Advanced representations.
Extracting evolution of Web Community from a Series of Web Archive - Detecting communities in social networks - Definition of community - Evaluating communities - Methods for community detection and mining - Applications of community mining algorithms - Tools for detecting communities social network infrastructures and communities - Decentralized online social networks - Multi-Relational characterization of dynamic social network communities.
Understanding and predicting human behaviour for social communities - User data management - Inference and Distribution - Enabling new human experiences - Reality mining - Context - Awareness - Privacy in online social networks - Trust in online environment - Trust models based on subjective logic - Trust network analysis - Trust transitivity analysis - Combining trust and reputation - Trust derivation based on trust comparisons - Attack spectrum and countermeasures.
Graph theory - Centrality - Clustering - Node-Edge Diagrams - Matrix representation - Visualizing online social networks, Visualizing social networks with matrix-based representations - Matrix and Node-Link Diagrams - Hybrid representations - Applications - Cover networks - Community welfare - Collaboration networks - Co-Citation networks.
Reference Book:
1. Guandong Xu , Yanchun Zhang and Lin Li, ―Web Mining and Social Networking – Techniques and applications‖, First Edition, Springer, 2011. 2. Dion Goh and Schubert Foo, ―Social information Retrieval Systems: Emerging Technologies and Applications for Searching the Web Effectively‖, IGI Global Snippet, 2008. 3. Max Chevalier, Christine Julien and Chantal Soulé-Dupuy, ―Collaborative and Social Information Retrieval and Access: Techniques for Improved user Modelling‖, IGI Global Snippet, 2009. 4. John G. Breslin, Alexander Passant and Stefan Decker, ―The Social Semantic Web‖, Springer, 2009.
Text Book:
1. Peter Mika, ―Social Networks and the Semantic Web‖, First Edition, Springer 2007. 2. Borko Furht, ―Handbook of Social Network Technologies and Applications‖, 1st Edition, Springer, 2010.
