A Review of Machine Learning and Data Mining Approaches for Business Applications in Social Networks

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-53
Author(s):  
Evis Trandafili ◽  
Marenglen Biba

Social networks have an outstanding marketing value and developing data mining methods for viral marketing is a hot topic in the research community. However, most social networks remain impossible to be fully analyzed and understood due to prohibiting sizes and the incapability of traditional machine learning and data mining approaches to deal with the new dimension in the learning process related to the large-scale environment where the data are produced. On one hand, the birth and evolution of such networks has posed outstanding challenges for the learning and mining community, and on the other has opened the possibility for very powerful business applications. However, little understanding exists regarding these business applications and the potential of social network mining to boost marketing. This paper presents a review of the most important state-of-the-art approaches in the machine learning and data mining community regarding analysis of social networks and their business applications. The authors review the problems related to social networks and describe the recent developments in the area discussing important achievements in the analysis of social networks and outlining future work. The focus of the review in not only on the technical aspects of the learning and mining approaches applied to social networks but also on the business potentials of such methods.

Author(s):  
Jiri Panek

Crowdsroucing of emotional information can take many forms, from social networks data mining to large-scale surveys. The author presents the case-study of emotional mapping in Ostrava´s district Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic. Together with the local administration, the author crowdsourced the emotional perceptions of the location from almost 400 citizens, who created 4,051 spatial features. Additional to the spatial data there were 1,244 comments and suggestions for improvements in the district. Furthermore, the author is looking for patterns and hot-spots within the city and if there are any relevant linkages between certain emotions and spatial locations within the city.


Catalysts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 1129
Author(s):  
Wenxiang Liu ◽  
Yang Zhu ◽  
Yongqiang Wu ◽  
Cen Chen ◽  
Yang Hong ◽  
...  

Given the importance of catalysts in the chemical industry, they have been extensively investigated by experimental and numerical methods. With the development of computational algorithms and computer hardware, large-scale simulations have enabled influential studies with more atomic details reflecting microscopic mechanisms. This review provides a comprehensive summary of recent developments in molecular dynamics, including ab initio molecular dynamics and reaction force-field molecular dynamics. Recent research on both approaches to catalyst calculations is reviewed, including growth, dehydrogenation, hydrogenation, oxidation reactions, bias, and recombination of carbon materials that can guide catalyst calculations. Machine learning has attracted increasing interest in recent years, and its combination with the field of catalysts has inspired promising development approaches. Its applications in machine learning potential, catalyst design, performance prediction, structure optimization, and classification have been summarized in detail. This review hopes to shed light and perspective on ML approaches in catalysts.


Author(s):  
Giovanni Felici ◽  
Klaus Truemper

The method described in this chapter is designed for data mining and learning on logic data. This type of data is composed of records that can be described by the presence or absence of a finite number of properties. Formally, such records can be described by variables that may assume only the values true or false, usually referred to as logic (or Boolean) variables. In real applications, it may also happen that the presence or absence of some property cannot be verified for some record; in such a case we consider that variable to be unknown (the capability to treat formally data with missing values is a feature of logic-based methods). For example, to describe patient records in medical diagnosis applications, one may use the logic variables healthy, old, has_high_temperature, among many others. A very common data mining task is to find, based on training data, the rules that separate two subsets of the available records, or explains the belonging of the data to one subset or the other. For example, one may desire to find a rule that, based one the many variables observed in patient records, is able to distinguish healthy patients from sick ones. Such a rule, if sufficiently precise, may then be used to classify new data and/or to gain information from the available data. This task is often referred to as machine learning or pattern recognition and accounts for a significant portion of the research conducted in the data mining community. When the data considered is in logic form or can be transformed into it by some reasonable process, it is of great interest to determine explanatory rules in the form of the combination of logic variables, or logic formulas. In the example above, a rule derived from data could be:if (has_high_temperature is true) and (running_nose is true) then (the patient is not healthy).


Author(s):  
Silvana Rossy de Brito ◽  
Aleksandra do Socorro da Silva ◽  
Dalton Lopes Martins ◽  
Cláudio Alex Jorge da Rocha ◽  
João Crisóstomo Weyl Albuquerque Costa ◽  
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This chapter summarizes several previous studies on the analysis of social networks and presents some challenges in monitoring and evaluating large-scale training programs that make use of social networks. The main objective is to understand the dynamics and identify how information is shared among the participating agents of the training program. In this regard, the authors present various algorithms that apply metrics to social network analysis to assess the evolution of networks throughout the training process, and specifically, to discuss the application of these metrics in the evaluation of large-scale training programs for digital inclusion.


10.29007/74gj ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo Prates ◽  
Pedro Avelar ◽  
Luis Lamb

Recent developments in AI, Machine Learning and Robotics have raised concerns about the ethical consequences of both academic and industrial AI research. Leading academics, businessmen and politicians have voiced an increasing number of questions about the con- sequences of AI not only over people, but also on the large-scale consequences on the the future of work and employment, its social consequences and the sustainability of the planet. In this work, we analyse the use and the occurrence of ethics-related research in leading AI, machine learning and robotics venues. In order to do so we perform long term, historical corpus-based analyses on a large number of flagship conferences and journals. Our experiments identify the prominence of ethics-related terms in published papers and presents several statistics on related topics. Finally, this research provides quantitative evidence on the pressing ethical concerns of the AI community.


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