ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK MINING: CURRENT TRENDS AND RESEARCH ISSUES

G Nandi, A Das

Abstract: Online Social Network (OSN) mining has been a vast active area of research in the current years mainly due to the immense increase in the usage and popularity of such social networks. However, the huge amount of resources available in Online Social Networks (OSNs) poses a great challenge for researchers to analyze such networks. Also, the data generated from OSNs is dynamic and requires the need for intelligent mining of dynamic OSN data. In this paper we take into consideration three important current topics related to OSN mining with special emphasis on the current status of these research subareas. Hence this paper gives an idea about the hot topics related to OSN mining which will help the researchers to solve those challenges that still exist in mining OSNs.

Keywords: Online Social Networks, Data Mining, Influence Propagation, Community Detection, Link Prediction

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0304062