@BOOK{1384Kelm2012, AUTHOR = {Pascal Kelm and Vanessa Murdock and Sebastian Schmiedeke and Steven Schockaert and Pavel Serdyukov and Olivier Van Laere}, TITLE = {Georeferencing in Social Networks}, YEAR = {2012}, BOOKTITLE = {Social Media Retrieval}, EDITOR = {Naeem Ramzan, Roelof van Zwol, Jong-Seok Lee, Kai Clüver, Xian-Sheng Hua}, PUBLISHER = {Springer}, NOTE = {ISBN 978-1-4471-4554-7}, ABSTRACT = {Social media is now ubiquitous on the internet, generating both new possibilities and new challenges in information analysis and retrieval. This comprehensive text/reference examines in depth the synergy between multimedia content analysis, ersonalization, and next-generation networking. The book demonstrates how this integration can result in robust, personalized services that provide users with an improved multimedia-centric quality of experience. Each chapter offers a practical step-by-step walkthrough for a variety of concepts, components and technologies relating to the development of applications and services. Topics and features: - Provides contributions from an international and interdisciplinary selection of experts in their fields Introduces the fundamentals of social media retrieval, presenting the most important areas of research in this domain - Examines the important topic of multimedia tagging in social environments, including geo-tagging Discusses issues of personalization and privacy in social media - Reviews advances in encoding, compression and network architectures for the exchange of social media information - Describes a range of applications related to social media Researchers and students interested in social media retrieval will find this book a valuable resource, covering a broad overview of state-of-the-art research and emerging trends in this area. The text will also be of use to practicing engineers involved in envisioning and building innovative social media applications and services.} }