Techniques and Tools for Designing an Online Social Network Platform

Following the introduction of Myspace, Linkedin and Facebook, social networks have become part of people’s everyday life. New online social networks appear almost daily developed to attract the attention of Internet users.  However, design and implementation standards and guidelines are often sacrif...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Karampelas, Panagiotis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Vienna Springer Vienna 2013, 2013
Edition:1st ed. 2013
Series:Lecture Notes in Social Networks
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Author’s Biography
  • Part I – Introduction
  • Chapter 1. From Virtual Communities to Social Networks
  • Part II – Requirements Analysis and Design
  • Chapter 2. Identifying Users and Their Tasks
  • Chapter 3. Requirement Identification and Analysis Techniques
  • Chapter 4. Design Principles and Guidelines
  • Part III – Implementation and Visualization
  • Chapter 5. Implementation Techniques
  • Chapter 6. Existing Development Platforms
  • Chapter 7. Visualization of Social Networks
  • Part IV – Evaluation and Network Mining
  • Chapter 8. Usability Evaluation Techniques
  • Chapter 9. Social Network Analysis and Mining
  • Part V – Conclusions and Open Issues
  • Chapter 10. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References. Subject Index