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1. Introduction and the web -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The world wide web -- 1.2.1 History and evolution of the web -- 1.2.2 A short explanation of how the web works -- 1.3 Global impact of the internet and the web -- 1.4 Web mining, the social web, and the semantic web -- 1.5 Conclusion --

2. Web mining -- 2.1 Mining the world wide web -- 2.1.1 Different types of web mining processes -- 2.1.2 Directed vs. undirected web mining processes -- 2.1.3 Supervised vs. unsupervised algorithms -- 2.2 Traditional framework for offline website enhancements -- 2.2.1 Resource discovery/data selecti...

3. The social web -- 3.1 What is the social web? -- 3.1.1 A brief history of the social web -- 3.1.2 Online social networks -- 3.1.3 Social media creation and sharing -- 3.1.4 Tagging, folksonomies, and hashtags -- 3.1.5 Crowdsourcing and citizen sensors -- 3.1.6 Limitations with social spaces -- 3....

4. The semantic web -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.1.1 From syntax to semantics -- 4.1.2 A great big graph of metadata and vocabularies -- 4.1.3 Issues with vocabulary creation -- 4.1.4 Representation formats -- 4.1.5 Semantic web and SEO -- 4.1.6 Comparisons with microformats and microdata -- 4.2 Conclus...

5. The social semantic web -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The social semantic web -- 5.3 Some potential uses of the social semantic web -- 5.4 Integrating existing social spaces on the web -- 5.5 Extension to further social spaces -- 5.6 Standard, interoperable descriptions of social data -- 5.7 The lon...

6. Social semantic web mining -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Provenance -- 6.2.1 Rumors and dissimulation in online social networks -- 6.2.2 What is provenance? -- 6.2.3 Modeling provenance -- 6.2.4 Provenance of social data -- 6.2.5 Provenance on the web -- 6.3 SIOCM -- 6.3.1 Ontological representation...

7. Social semantic web mining of communities -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Purpose evolution -- 7.3 Goals as a measure of purpose accomplishment -- 7.4 Mining goals from texts: concept-based text mining -- 7.4.1 Fuzzy logic for goals classification -- 7.4.2 Identification and definition of goals -- 7.5...

8. Social semantic web mining of groups -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Previous work -- 8.2.1 Topic-based social network analysis -- 8.2.2 Social network analysis on the dark web -- 8.3 Methodology for group key member discovery -- 8.3.1 Basic notation -- 8.3.2 Topic modeling -- 8.3.3 Network configurat...

9. Social semantic web mining of users -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Modeling a distributed user profile with interests -- 9.3 Related work mining user profiles on the social semantic web -- 9.4 Representing user interest profiles -- 9.5 Leveraging the provenance of user data -- 9.6 Interests on the we...

10. Conclusions -- 10.1 Summary -- 10.2 Future work -- Bibliography -- Authors' biographies.