Publications

Modeling and Data Mining in Blogosphere

Series: Synthesis Lectures on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery , Vol. 1

Agarwal, Nitin (University of Arkansas at Little Rock); Liu, Huan (Arizona State University)
Grossman, Robert (University of Illinois at Chicago) (Ed.)

ISBN: 9781598299083 paperback
ISBN: 9781598299090 ebook

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Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Modeling Blogosphere
• Chapter 2: Blog Clustering and Community Discovery
• Chapter 3: Influence and Trust
• Chapter 4: Spam Filtering in Blogosphere
• Chapter 5: Data Collection and Evaluation
• Appendix A: Tools in Blogosphere
• Appendix B: API Examples

Engineers, researchers, practitioners, and graduate and senior level undergraduate students in Computer Science, Information Science, and related disciplines.

Keywords:

blogosphere, weblogs, blogs, blog model, power law distribution, scale free networks, degree distribution, clustering coefficient, centrality measures, clustering, community discovery, influence, diffusion, trust, propagation, spam blogs, splogs, data collection, blog crawling, performance evaluation