Neural Networks and Connectionist Models

• Evolutionary Algorithms

• Fuzzy Logic

• Knowledge Management

• Multi-valued Logic

• Semantic Networks

• Rough Sets

• Intelligent Agents

• Ontologies

• Reinforcement Learning

• Applications on Social Networks:

• Network evolution

Network evolution and growth mechanisms. 

• Online communities and computer networks. 

• Information diffusion in social networks.

• Detection of communities by document analysis.

• Topology of real networks.

Recommendation

• Information diffusion in social networks. 

• Recommendations for product purchase, information acquisition and establishment of social relations.

• Impact of recommendation models on the evolution of the social network. 

• Classification models and their application in social recommender systems.

Advertisement models

• Economical impact of social network discovery. 

• Social advertising. 

• Use of social networks for marketing.

Search in network

• Web page ranking informed by social media. 

• Search algorithms on social networks.

• Collaborative Filtering.

Security

• Anomaly detection in social network evolution.

• Data protection inside communities. 

• Crime data mining and network analysis.

• Modeling trust and reputation in social networks.

• Misbehavior detection in communities.

Network geography

• Geographical clusters, networks, and innovation. 

• Social geography. 

• International Collaborations in e-Social network.

Web

• Automatic discovery and analysis of Web based social networks.

• Link Topology and Site Hierarchy. 

• Web mining algorithms. 

• Web communities.

• Web-Based Cooperative Work.

Evaluation

• Test collection. 

• Benchmark creation. 

• Measures and methodologies.