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Nima Jafari Navimipour

Work place: Department of Computer Engineering, East Azarbaijan Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran

E-mail: n.jafari@srbiau.ac.ir

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Research Interests: Social Computing, Computer systems and computational processes, Autonomic Computing, Evolutionary Computation, Systems Architecture, Computer Networks, Social Information Systems

Biography

Nima Jafari Navimipour received his B.S. in computer engineering, software engineering, from Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran, in 2007, the M.S. in computer engineering, computer architecture, from Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran, in 2009. From 2011, he is a Ph.D student in Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. Currently he is Lecturer in Department of Computer Engineering, East Azarbaijan Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran. He has published more than 50 papers in various journals and conference proceedings. His research interests include Cloud/Grid Systems, Traffic Control, Social Networks, Computational Intelligence, Evolutionary Computing, and Wireless Networks.

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A Review on Search and Discovery Mechanisms in Social Networks

By Shabnam Hassanzadeh Sharif Shabnam Mahmazi Nima Jafari Navimipour Behzad Farid Aghdam

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijieeb.2013.06.08, Pub. Date: 8 Dec. 2013

Social search is a variant of information retrieval where a document or website is considered relevant if individuals from the searcher’s social network have interacted with it. To the best of our knowledge, there is no new detailed paper which covers discovery method in social network; therefore, in this paper we surveyed searching methods in social network which have been presented so far. We classified the existing methods in four main categories: people search, job search, keyword search and web service discovery. Also we conclude the paper with some implications for future research and practice.

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