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This chapter introduces readers to the research background of the book and the main research fields and methods of social computing in current researches. In the last section of this chapter, we will give readers the structure of this book.

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Liang, X. (2020). Introduction. In: Social Computing with Artificial Intelligence . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7760-4_1

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