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  • Theories of Communication Networks

    by Peter R. Monge, Noshir Contractor ...
    To date, most network research contains one or more of five major problems. First, it tends to be atheoretical, ignoring the various social theories that contain network implications. Second, it explores single levels of analysis rather than the multiple levels out of which most networks are comprised. Third, network analysis has employed very little the insights from contemporary complex systems ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Predicting Real World Behaviors from Virtual World Data

    Edited by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, Cuihua Shen, Jaideep Srivastava, Noshir Contractor ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    There is a growing body of literature that focuses on the similarities and differences between how people behave in the offline world vs. how they behave in these virtual environments. Data mining has aided in discovering interesting insights with respect to how people behave in these virtual environments. The book addresses prediction, mining and analysis of offline characteristics and behaviors ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • Impact: Six Patterns to Spread Your Social Innovation

    by Al Etmanski ...
    "Impact beautifully distills the insights and deep wisdom of one of the world's great social innovators. Etmanski's book is far more than a practical guide: it's an invitation to re-imagine possibilities for our lives and for the world we create."- David Bornstein, author "How To Change The World"From the Introduction:Do you want to change the world but feel frustrated by the limited impact you ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Why Society is a Complex Matter

    Meeting Twenty-first Century Challenges with a New Kind of Science

    by Philip Ball ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to predict social behaviour. As a system made up of many interacting agents – people, groups, institutions and governments, as well as physical and technological structures such as roads and computer networks – society can be regarded as a complex system. ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Infonomics

    How to Monetize, Manage, and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage

    by Douglas B. Laney ...
    Many senior executives talk about information as one of their most important assets, but few behave as if it is. They report to the board on the health of their workforce, their financials, their customers, and their partnerships, but rarely the health of their information assets. Corporations typically exhibit greater discipline in tracking and accounting for their office furniture than their ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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  • Conflict and Complexity

    Countering Terrorism, Insurgency, Ethnic and Regional Violence

    Edited by Yaneer Bar-Yam, Ali A. Minai, Philip Vos Fellman ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book follows the methodologies of complex adaptive systems research in their application to addressing the problems of terrorism, specifically terrorist networks, their structure and various methods of mapping and interdicting them as well as exploring the complex landscape of network-centric and irregular warfare. A variety of new models and approaches are presented here, including Dynamic ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Introduction to Computational Social Science

    Principles and Applications

    by Claudio Cioffi-Revilla ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This reader-friendly textbook is the first work of its kind to provide a unified Introduction to Computational Social Science (CSS). Four distinct methodological approaches are examined in detail, namely automated social information extraction, social network analysis, social complexity theory and social simulation modeling. The coverage of these approaches is supported by a discussion of the ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • Social Phenomena

    From Data Analysis to Models

    Edited by Bruno Gonçalves, Nicola Perra ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book focuses on the new possibilities and approaches to social modeling currently being made possible by an unprecedented variety of datasets generated by our interactions with modern technologies. This area has witnessed a veritable explosion of activity over the last few years, yielding many interesting and useful results. Our aim is to provide an overview of the state of the art in this ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Social Networks: Analysis and Case Studies

    Edited by A. Şima Etaner-Uyar, Şule Gündüz-Öğüdücü ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    The present volume provides a comprehensive resource for practitioners and researchers alike-both those new to the field as well as those who already have some experience. The work covers Social Network Analysis theory and methods with a focus on current applications and case studies applied in various domains such as mobile networks, security, machine learning and health. With the increasing ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Governance of IT

    An executive guide to ISO/IEC 38500

    by Alison Holt ...
    Directors and government ministers across the world are increasingly being held accountable for failed IT systems, data loss and poor decisions about their organisation’s data. This valuable book is designed to bridge the gap between the governing body and CIOs/ IT managers. It will help the reader create a safe and robust governance framework for their organisation by applying the principles of ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Transparency in Social Media

    Tools, Methods and Algorithms for Mediating Online Interactions

    Edited by Sorin Adam Matei, Martha G. Russell, Elisa Bertino ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    The volume presents, in a synergistic manner, significant theoretical and practical contributions in the area of social media reputation and authorship measurement, visualization, and modeling. The book justifies and proposes contributions to a future agenda for understanding the requirements for making social media authorship more transparent. Building on work presented in a previous volume of ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Social Network Analysis - Community Detection and Evolution

    Edited by Rokia Missaoui, Idrissa Sarr ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book is devoted to recent progress in social network analysis with a high focus on community detection and evolution. The eleven chapters cover the identification of cohesive groups, core components and key players either in static or dynamic networks of different kinds and levels of heterogeneity. Other important topics in social network analysis such as influential detection and ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD