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Data Mining Techniques for Social Networks Analysis

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Acknowledgments

We hereby acknowledge all the past and present members of the Data Mining Research Lab at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, namely, Aarti Sathyanarayana, Ankit Sharma, Bhavtosh Rath, Kartik Singhal, Kyong Jin Shim, Muhammad Ahmad, Nishith Pathak, Colin DeLong, Amogh Mahapatra, Zoheb Borbora, Atanu Roy, and Chandrima Sarkar.

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Aggarwal, K., Kapoor, K., Srivastava, J. (2018). Data Mining Techniques for Social Networks Analysis. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_56

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