This book presents the state-of-the-art in various aspects of analysis and mining of online
social networks. Within the broader context of online social networks it focuses on important
and upcoming topics of social network analysis and mining such as the latest in sentiment
trends research and a variety of techniques for community detection and analysis. The book
collects chapters that are expanded versions of the best papers presented at the IEEE ACM
International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM¿2015)
which was held in Paris France in August 2015. All papers have been peer reviewed and checked
carefully for overlap with the literature. The book will appeal to students and researchers in
social network analysis mining and machine learning.
