1 Handbook of Social Network Technologies and Applications Editor-in Chief Borko Furht Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA Advisory Board Sonja Buhegger, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin, Germany Anwitaman Datta, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Lisa Singh, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA Steffan Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Ronald R. Yager, Iona College, New Rochelle, New York, USA Nina Ziv, Polytechnic University Susanta Mitra, Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India Bin Zhou, Simon Fraser University, Canada Saikat Guha, Max Planck Institute, SaarbruckenKaiserslautern, Germany Selected Articles Social Networks Fundamentals Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University, Florida, USA Social Network Analysis Mingxin Zhang, Wuhan University, China Multi-modal Characterization of Social Network Communities Yu-Ru Lin, Hari Sundaram, and Aisling Keliher, Arizona State University, USA Decentralized Online Social Networks Sonja Buchegger, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin, Germany Anwitaman Datta, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Thorsten Strufe, University of Darmstadt, Germany Analysis of Social Networks by Tensor Decomposition Thomas Franz, Sergej Sizov, and Steffan Staab University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Managing Trust in Online Social Networks Touhid Bhuiyan, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Audun Josang, University of Oslo, Norway Yue Xu, Queensland University of Technology, Australia 2 Structure and Dynamics of Social Networks Revealed by Data Analysis of Actual Communication Services Masaki Aida, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan Key Player Investigation in Terrorist/Covert Networks using Bayes Conditional Probability D.M. Akbar Hussain Aalborg University, Denmark Telephone Call Graphs: Structural Analysis to Influence Network Evolution Vinayaka Pandit, IBM Research, New Delhi, India Service Interaction Networks: Combining Pattern of Interaction and Outcomes of Interactions to Improve Service Delivery S. Kameshwaran, Indian School of Business Sameep Mehta, IBM Research, New Delhi, India Vinayaka Pandit, IBM Research, New Delhi, India TBD Lisa Singh, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA Social Bookmarking on a Company's Intranet: A Case Study of Technology Diffusion of Onomi Software at the MITRE Corporation Nina Ziv, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, New York, USA Doscovering Communities from Social Networks: Methodologies and Applications Bo Yang, Jilin University, China Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong TBD Ronald R. Yager, Panix Privacy Issues in Online Social Networks Thorsten Strufe, University of Darmstadt, Germany Detecting Communities in Social Networks Tsuyoshi Murata, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Analyzing the Dynamics of Communication in Online Social Networks Nunmun De Choudhury and Hari Sundaram, Arizona State University, USA Ajita John and Doree Duncan Seligmann, Avaya Labs 3 Applications of Social Network Analysis P.Santhi Thilagam, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India TBD Susanta Mitra, Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India Discovering Mobile Social Networks by Semantic Technologies Jason J. Jung, Yeungnam University, South Korea Kwang Sun Choi, Saltlux, SouthKorea and Sung Hyuk Park, KAIST Business School, South Korea Privacy Preservation Publishing Through a Graph Partition Approach Bin Zhou and Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Extracting Social Networks from Text Data Masoud Makrehchi, Thomson Reuters Corporation, Canada Defining Privacy in Online Social Networks Saikat Guha, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, SaarbruckenKaiserslautern, Germany Social Network Analysis of Networks Extracted from Log Files Katarina Slaninova, Pavla Drazdilova, Gamila Obadi, Jan Martinovic, and Vaclav Snasel Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Online Identities and Social Networking Muthucumaru Maheswaran and Bader Ali McGill University, Montreal, Canada Visualization of Social Networks Ing-Xiang Chen and Cheng-Zen Yang Yuan Ze University, Taiwan Social Networks for Online Advretising Abraham Bagherjeiran, Rushi Bhatt, and rajesh Parekh, Yahoo! Labs Novel Visualizations and Interactions for Social Networks Exploration Nathalie Henry Riche, Microsoft Research, and Jean-Daniel Fekete, INRIA, France