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Social Network Integration
and Analysis with
Privacy Preservation
34.1 INTRODUCTION
Social networks have drawn substantial attention in recent years owing to the advancement of Web
2.0 technologies. Aggregating social network data becomes easier through crawling user interac-
tions on the Internet (Adibi et al., 2004). Social network analysis discovers knowledge hidden in the
structure of social networks that is useful in many domains such as marketing, epidemiology, home-
land security, sociology, psychology, and management. Social network data is usually owned by an
individual organization or government agency. However, each organization ...