Zahra Zamani Alavijeh - Department of engineering, University of Isfahan Isfahan, Iran

Recently, link mining is becoming a very popular research area not only for data mining and web mining but also in the field of social network analysis. Many researches are focusing ondeveloping new link mining techniques and algorithms, or devoting to improve traditional mining techniques for socialnetwork analysis. This paper discuss about challenges in the area of link mining and focusing on application requirementsespecially in the area of social network analysis. It discussessome ongoing challenges and suggests ideas that could be opportunities for solutions

Link mining, Link Analysis, Social Network, Social Network Analysis