Graphical analysis of social group dynamics

Identifying communities in social networks becomes an increasingly important research problem. Several methods for identifying such groups have been developed, however, qualitative analysis (taking into account the scale of the problem) still poses serious problems. This paper describes a tool for f...

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Main Authors: Gliwa, B., Zygmunt, A., Byrski, A.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Communities
Complex networks
dynamics analysis
Electronic mail
Feature extraction
group evolution
group identification
Social network services
social networks analysis
Stability analysis
Visualization
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Summary:Identifying communities in social networks becomes an increasingly important research problem. Several methods for identifying such groups have been developed, however, qualitative analysis (taking into account the scale of the problem) still poses serious problems. This paper describes a tool for facilitating such an analysis, allowing to visualize the dynamics and supporting localization of different events (such as creation or merging of groups). In the final part of the paper, the experimental results performed using the benchmark data (Enron emails) provide an insight into usefulness of the proposed tool.
DOI:10.1109/CASoN.2012.6412375