Social Network Analysis ─ Interdisciplinary Approaches and Case Studies

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 different principles, terminologies, theories. and methodologies. The book aims to fill the gap among these disciplines with a number of the latest interdisciplinary collaboration studies.

Xiaoming Fu obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, China in 2000. He worked as a researchstaff at Technical University Berlin before joining the University of Gottingen in 2002, where he has been a Professor and headingthe Computer Networks Group since 2007. His research areas include architecture, protocols and applications of Internet-basedcommunication systems, including information dissemination, cloud computing, and social networks/social computing. He is anIEEE Senior Member and an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer. He served as Secretary (2008-2010) and ViceChair (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 serveson the editorial boards of IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Service and Network Management, ElsevierComputer Networks and Computer Communications journals.Professor Luo Jar-der is also a joint professor in the Management School of the Tsinghua University in Taiwan. He got his bachelordegree in 1982 from National Taiwan University, master and PHD from State University of New York at Stony Brook. His teachingfocuses on theory of social capital, social network analysis, and organizational theory. He also teaches management courses inmany other oversea and domestic business schools. Professor Luo’s research endeavors to bring social network, especiallyChinese Guangxi, into analysis of economic behaviors and business management. With others, he is trying to set up a researchcommittee on social network analysis. Professor Luo has published widely in oversea and domestic academic journals. He haswritten The Chinese Trust Game, Textbook of Social Network Analysis and other books.Professor Luo’s main research interests include organization research, social network analysis, and economic sociology.Margarete Boos is professor and head of the Department of Social and Communication Psychology at University of Gottingen. Shegot her PHD on sociology from University of Bonn, Germany, in 1983. Her research interste include Social-psychological groupresearch Methods for the analysis of interactions and communication, Computer-based communication in groups andorganizations, and Group coordination, etc..