Conceptualizing Big Social Data

Querying Big Social Data

Big data poses new challenges to query answering, from computational complexity theory to query evaluation techniques. Several questions arise. What query classes can be considered tractable in the context of big data? How can we make query answering feasible on big data? What should we do about the quality of the data, the other side of big data? This paper aims to provide an overview of recen...

Big Data and Social Web

Computational Intelligence for Big Social Data Analysis

Mining Social and Urban Big Data

In recent years, with the rapid development of positioning technologies, online social networks, sensors and smart devices, large scale human behavioral data are now readily available. The growing availability of such behavioral data provides us unprecedented opportunities to gain more in depth understanding of users in both the physical world and cyber world, especially in online social networ...

Guest Editorial: Big Social Data Analysis

In the era of social connectedness, Web users are becoming increasingly enthusiastic about interacting, sharing, and collaborating through online collaborative media. In recent years, this collective intelligence has spread to many different areas, with particular focus on fields related to everyday life such as commerce , tourism, education, and health, causing the size of the social Web to ex...