Social Network Analysis

Xiaoming Fu obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, China in 2000. He worked as a research staff at Technical University Berlin before joining the University of Göttingen, Germany in 2002, where he has been a Professor and heading the Computer Networks Group since 2007. His research areas include architecture, protocols and applications of Internet-based communication systems, including information dissemination, cloud computing, and social networks/social computing. He is an IEEE Senior Member and an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer. He served as Secretary (2008-2010) and Vice Chair (2010-2012) of IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC), then Chair (2011-2013) of the Internet Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society and the Internet Society. Currently he serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Service and Network Management, Elsevier Computer Networks and Computer Communications journals.

The book addresses the issue of interdisciplinary understanding of collaboration on the topic of social network studies. Researchers and practitioners from various disciplines including sociology, computer science, socio-psychology, public health, complex systems, and management science have worked largely independently, each with quite differen

Preface