Zelkowitz Advances in Computers

Social Net Working and the Web
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-08-095112-6
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

This is volume 76 of the Advances in Computers. Since 1960, annual volumes are produced containing chapters by some of the leading experts in the field of computers today. For almost 50 years these volumes present ideas and developments that are radically changing our society. One of the most important ideas sweeping though society today is the social networking website. Names like Wikipedia, Flickr, Second Life, Twitter, Facebook, Meetup, MySpace, LinkedIn, among others, are becoming common parlance as the youth, and a growing segment of the adult population, now view such websites as alternatives to the corner convenience store or coffee shop and critically important avenues for social interactions. In this volume we explore this phenomenon to describe the development of some of these ideas as well as developments in web technology that enable this to occur. This volume contains seven chapters divided into two parts. The first three chapters describe the social networking phenomenon and provide insights into the technology and influences on our culture. The last four chapters provide details of the underlying technology that allows the web to expand to include these social networking sites, as well as other new applications for information dissemination, accessing, and sharing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zelkowitz, Marvin

Zelkowitz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Advances in COMPUTERS: Social Networking and The Web;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Contents;6
5;Contributors;10
6;Preface;16
7;Chapter 1: Information Sharing and Social Computing: Why, What, and Where?;20
7.1;1. Introduction;21
7.2;2. Information Sharing: Wikipedia;22
7.3;3. Photo Sharing: Flickr;28
7.4;4. Metainformation Sharing: Tags;31
7.5;5. Conclusion;34
7.6;References;35
8;Chapter 2: Social Network Sites: Users and Uses;38
8.1;1. Introduction;39
8.2;2. Definition, History, and Typology;41
8.3;3. User Characteristics;56
8.4;4. Usage;59
8.5;5. Friendship;65
8.6;6. Friendship Issues;71
8.7;7. Privacy and Security;73
8.8;8. Language;78
8.9;9. Software Issues;80
8.10;10. Conclusions;83
8.11;Acknowledgment;87
8.12;References;87
9;Chapter 3: Highly Interactive Scalable Online Worlds;94
9.1;1. Introduction;95
9.2;2. Gaming Scenarios;97
9.3;3. Related Work;110
9.4;4. Core Problems;124
9.5;5. Conclusions and Further Work;127
9.6;Acknowledgments;134
9.7;References;134
10;Chapter 4: The Future of Social Web Sites: Sharing Data and Trusted Applications with Semantics;140
10.1;1. Introduction;142
10.2;2. Social Web Sites and Approaches to Add Semantics;146
10.3;3. Producers of Social Semantic Data;164
10.4;4. Collectors of Social Semantic Data;173
10.5;5. Consumers of Social Semantic Data;178
10.6;6. Future Work;185
10.7;7. Conclusions;190
10.8;Acknowledgment;191
10.9;References;191
11;Chapter 5: Semantic Web Services Architecture with Lightweight Descriptions of Services;196
11.1;1. Introduction;198
11.2;2. SWS Architecture;198
11.3;3. Model for Business Services;202
11.4;4. Service Execution Model;221
11.5;5. Implementation;228
11.6;6. Related Work;235
11.7;7. Conclusion;240
11.8;References;241
12;Chapter 6: Issues and Approaches for Web 2.0 Client Access to Enterprise Data;244
12.1;1. Introduction;245
12.2;2. Enterprises and Web 2.0 Data Access;250
12.3;3. A Closer Look at Web 2.0 Client and Server Data-Access APIs;261
12.4;4. Conclusion;271
12.5;Acknowledgments;272
12.6;References;272
13;Chapter 7: Web Content Filtering;276
13.1;1. Introduction;278
13.2;2. Motivation and Applications;279
13.3;3. Web Filters Operation and Techniques;288
13.4;4. Text-Based Filtering;300
13.5;5. Image Processing Techniques;305
13.6;6. Evaluation of Web Filters;309
13.7;7. Attacks and Countermeasures;315
13.8;8. Review of Singular Projects;317
13.9;9. Conclusions and Future Trends;321
13.10;References;322
14;Author Index;326
15;Subject Index;338
16;Contents of Volumes in This Series;358