Leveraging Label-Independent Features for Classification in Sparsely Labeled Networks: An Empirical Study -- Community Detection Using a Measure of Global Influence -- Communication Dynamics of Blog Networks -- Finding Spread Blockers in Dynamic Networks -- Social Network Mining with Nonparametric Relational Models -- Using Friendship Ties and Family Circles for Link Prediction -- Information Theoretic Criteria for Community Detection.

This work constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Advances in Social Network and Analysis, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA in August 2008.