Group detection and relation analysis research for web social network

Abstract

With the rapid development of web social networks and its integration into our daily lives, interactivity and participatory between people and web have made the web social networks play an important role in the information security, trade relations, community structures, communication behavior and so on. This paper introduces the important significance, the current application, the progress of the study and research on the web social networks from the views of group detection and relation analysis, meanwhile points out the research trend of the web social networks from the evolution, the propagation, multi-scale, link associated with content, and the social computing. © 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.