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Big Data in Social Networks

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Big data analytics; Social networking

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Online social networking is a novel paradigm within the big data analytics framework, where massive amounts of information about heterogeneous social facts and interactions are stored, at a very high variability rate. By considering important problems such as influence diffusion and maximization and community detection, we show the importance of this research field in big data analysis.

Overview

We describe the main research activities in big data social networking, focusing on influence diffusion and maximization and community detection performed on on-line social networks.

Social Networks as Big Data

Nowadays, we can say undoubtedly that social networking is one of the main applications of big data techniques and tools. Online social networks (OSN) usually produce a collection of very huge data sets (volume) with a great diversity of types (variety) and sometimes with a high frequency of variability (velocity). In addition,...

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  1. Università di Napoli Federico II – DIETI, Napoli, Italy

    Antonio Picariello

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  1. School of Comp. Sci. and Engineering, University of New South Wales School of Comp. Sci. and Engineering, Eveleigh, New South Wales, Australia

    Sherif Sakr

  2. Sch of Info Techno, Building J12, University of Sydney Sch of Info Techno, Building J12, Sydney, Australia

    Albert Zomaya

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  1. Computer Science and Creative Technologies, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Kamran Munir

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Napoli Federico II, Via Claudio, 21, 80125, Napoli, Italy

    Antonio Pescapè

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Picariello, A. (2018). Big Data in Social Networks. In: Sakr, S., Zomaya, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63962-8_28-1

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