
329
26
Social Networking
in the Cloud
26.1 INTRODUCTION
This chapter describes a system called SNODSOC (stream-based novel class detection for social
network analysis) to detect evolving patterns and trends in social blogs, and shows how it may
be hosted on a cloud. We also discuss security issues for cloud-based social network analysis.
SNODSOC extends our powerful data mining system called SNOD (stream-based novel class
detection) for detecting classes of blogs. We also describe SNODSOC++, which is an extended
version of SNODSOC for detecting multiple novel classes. We have used many of the technologies
discussed in the previous chapters in ...