Social Network Data Mining: Research Questions, Techniques, and Applications -- Automatic Expansion of a Social Network Using Sentiment Analysis -- Automatic Mapping of Social Networks of Actors from Text Corpora: Time Series Analysis -- A Social Network-Based Recommender System (SNRS) --...

Data mining is the process of extracting hidden patterns from data, and it's commonly used in business, bioinformatics, counter-terrorism, and, increasingly, in professional sports. First popularized in Michael Lewis' best-selling Moneyball: The Art of Winning An Unfair Game, it is has become an...

The field of nanotechnology has seen enormous growth since 2000 and is expected to reach $1 trillion worldwide by 2015. Through a systematic and automated knowledge mapping methodology, authors Hsinchun Chen and Mihail Roco in this book collect, analyze and report on the state of the art in...