Lecture Notes in Computer Science Commenced Publication in 1973 Founding and Former Series Editors: Gerhard Goos, Juris Hartmanis, and Jan van Leeuwen Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen TU Dortmund University, Germany Madhu Sudan Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany 5498 Lee Giles Marc Smith John Yen Haizheng Zhang (Eds.) Advances in Social Network Mining and Analysis Second International Workshop, SNAKDD 2008 Las Vegas, NV, USA, August 24-27, 2008 Revised Selected Papers 13 Volume Editors Lee Giles John Yen Pennsylvania State University, College of Information Science and Technology University Park, PA 16802, USA E-mail: {giles, jyen}@ist.psu.edu Marc Smith Microsoft Research, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98002, USA E-mail:
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