Xiaoming Fu obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, China in 2000. He worked as a research staff at Technical University Berlin before joining the University of Göttingen, Germany in 2002, where he has been a Professor and heading the Computer Networks Group since 2007. His research areas include architecture, protocols and applications of Internet-based communication systems, including information dissemination, cloud computing, and social networks/social computing. He is an IEEE Senior Member and an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer. He served as Secretary (2008-2010) and Vice Chair (2010-2012) of IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC), then Chair (2011-2013) of the Internet Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society and the Internet Society. Currently he serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Service and Network Management, Elsevier Computer Networks and Computer Communications journals.Professor Jar-der Luo is a professor of sociology and director of Center for Social Network Research, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is also a joint professor in the Management School of the Tsinghua University in Taiwan. He got his bachelor degree in 1982 from National Taiwan University, master and PHD from State University of New York at Stony Brook. His teaching focuses on theory of social capital, social network analysis, and organizational theory. He also teaches management courses in many other oversea and domestic business schools. Professor Luo’s research endeavors to bring social network, especially Chinese Guangxi, into analysis of economic behaviors and business management. With others, he is trying to set up a research committee on social network analysis. Professor Luo has published widely in oversea and domestic academic journals. He has written The Chinese Trust Game, Textbook of Social Network Analysis and other books. Professor Luo’s main research interests include organization research, social network analysis, and economic sociology.Margarete Boos is professor and head of the Department of Social and Communication Psychology at University of Göttingen, Germany. She got her PhD on sociology from University of Bonn, Germany, in 1983. Her research interest include Social-psychological group research, Methods for the analysis of interactions and communication, Computer-based communication in groups and organizations, and Group coordination, etc.

• PrefaceChapter 1 – Methods for Interdisciplinary Social Network StudiesChapter 2 – Reflectsion on Initial Experiences with Transdisciplinary Engagement between Computer Science and the Social SciencesChapter 3 – How Much Sharing is Enough? Cognitive Patters in Interdisciplinary CollaborationsChapter 4 – The Measurement of Guanxi Circles – Using Qualitative Study to Modify Quantitative Measurement Chapter 5 – Analysis and Prediction of Triadic Closure in Online Social Networks Chapter 6 – The Prediction of Venture Capital Co-Investment Based on Structural Balance Theory Chapter 7 – Repeated Cooperation Matters – An Analysis of Syndication in the Chinese VC Industry by ERGM Model Chapter 8 – Patterns of Group Movement on a Virtual Playfield – Empirical and Simulation ApproachesChapter 9 – Social Spammer and Spam Message Detection in an Online Social Network – A Co-Detection Approach via Exploiting Social ContextsChapter 10 – Cultural Anthropology through the Lens of Wikipedia Chapter 11 – From Social Networks to Time Series: Metho9ds and ApplicationsChapter 12 – How Do Online Social Networks Grow?Chapter 13 – Information Dissemination in Social-Featured Opportunistic NetworksChapter 14 – Sources of Information and Behavioural Patterns in Health Online For aChapter 15 – Mining Big Data for Analyzing and Simulating Collaboration Factors Influencing Software Development Decisions