This is the authors' version of Chapter 6 only, before the review by the editor of the series. It does not include a number of corrections and changes done during the editorial process.

Log files of online shared workspaces contain rich information that can be further analyzed. In this paper, log-file information is used to extract object-centric and user-centric social networks. The object-centric social networks are used as a means for assigning concept-based expertise elements to users based on the documents that they created, revised or read. The usercentric social network...

This work proposes a social networks integrated sensor platform for cold chain logistics to effectively assure agri-food safety and quality. Accordingly, this will enhance consumer confidence and reduce the logistics cost. As a case study, employing WeChat social networks, a remote environment monitoring system inside a vehicle has been developed. Experiment results show that the proposed appro...

International forces in Afghanistan have experienced difficulties in developing constructive engagements with the Afghan population, an experience familiar to a wide range of international agencies working in underdeveloped and developing nations around the world. Recently, forces have begun deploying Female Engagement Teams, female military units who engage directly with women in occupied comm...

We introduce SocioScape, an interactive tool for the visual exploration of spatially referenced, dynamic social networks. The tool combines a novel depiction methodology that illustrates the evolution of social groups with a spatio-temporal visualization showing the movement of these groups in the environment. The depiction technique used by SocioScape provides an alternative to graphs, allowin...

Behavior in social groups follows unwritten codes, with the social group one is embedded in defining what behavior is acceptable and what is not. Prior research has found strong tendencies toward informational isomorphism in groups in online social networks, as social peers seem to establish a shared understanding of what behavior is acceptable and what informational content is okay to share. H...

Online Social Networks (OSNs) are more and more establishing as one of the key means to create and enforce social relationships between individuals. While substantial results have been obtained in the anthropology literature describing the properties of human social networks (built “outside” the OSN world), a clear understanding of the properties of social networks built using OSNs is still to ...

occurance of social movements in egypt and other countries in the middle east and north africa, and their demonstrative impacts lead to attentions of analysts. in this article by different approach, the authors try to explain the chractristics and the nature of late social movement in egypt and breakdown of mubarak government in the framework of late theories of social movement and john fouran ...