We have friends we consider very close and acquaintances we barely know. The social sciences use the term tie strength to denote this differential closeness with the people in our...
—Social Network Analysis (SNA) has evolved as a popular, standard method for modeling meaningful, often hidden structural relationships in communities. Existing SNA tools often i...
Elizabeth M. Bonsignore, Cody Dunne, Dana Rotman, ...
Given a large social or computer network, how can we visualize it, find patterns, outliers, communities? Although several graph visualization tools exist, they cannot handle larg...
With hundreds of millions of users already today, virtual worlds will become an important factor in tomorrow's media landscape. In a virtual world, users are represented by s...
Centrality analysis determines the importance of vertices in a network based on their connectivity within the network structure. It is a widely used technique to analyse network-s...