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Behavior Analysis in Social Networks

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Synonyms

Behavior modeling; Cause of behaviors; Influence of behaviors; Performance of behaviors; Social behaviors; User behaviors

Glossary

User behaviors of social networks:

Their willingness to adopt social network services based on their self-demand, social influence, and social network technologies, as well as the sum of the various related activities.

Semantic behaviors of social networks:

The inferred behaviors of users in real life based on the user behaviors of social networks, usually contents published by users of social networks.

User adoption in social networks:

Their willingness and actions to adopt the social network services based on their self-demand, social influence, and social network technologies.

TAM:

Technology acceptance model

TPB:

Theory of planned behavior

ECT:

Expectation confirmation theory

UGC:

User-generated content

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  1. School of Computer Science and Information Technology, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui, China

    Lei Li

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  1. Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. University of Calgary Computer Science, Calgary, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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  1. University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Guandong Xu

  2. Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, China

    Peng Cui

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Li, L. (2017). Behavior Analysis in Social Networks. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_110198-1

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