Social networks: A powerful model for serving a wide range of domains

Abstract

By nature, social networks exist and evolve; they arc dynamic. However the development in information technology increased the interest in social networks and they arc adapted to more applications and domains. To cope with the change, wc took the initiative and started three major projects, conference, journal and lecture notes scries that arc intended to meet the expectations of the involved research groups whose members have diverse backgrounds. This book is the first volume in our new scries entitled lecture notes in social networks. It includes papers that cover different topics ranging from fundamentals to applications of social networks. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Wien.