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Social Behavior in Mobile Social Networks: Characterizing Links, Roles, and Communities

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Mobile Social Networking

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Mobile social networks are enabled by the emergence of mobile and ubiquitous applications, providing social networking and social media functionalities in diverse contexts. This chapter focuses on social behavior in mobile social networks: We first discuss different aspects of mobile social networks. After that, we briefly describe exemplary systems. Finally, we summarize recent real-world analysis results, especially focusing on links and contacts between individuals, characterization of their roles, and dynamics of communities in mobile social networks.

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Atzmueller, M. (2014). Social Behavior in Mobile Social Networks: Characterizing Links, Roles, and Communities. In: Chin, A., Zhang, D. (eds) Mobile Social Networking. Computational Social Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8579-7_4

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