Title :
Graphical analysis of social group dynamics
Author :
Gliwa, Bogdan ; Zygmunt, Anna ; Byrski, Aleksander
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., AGH Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kraków, Poland
Abstract :
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.
Keywords :
computer graphics; graph theory; groupware; social networking (online); graphical analysis; qualitative analysis; social group dynamics; social network; Communities; Complex networks; Electronic mail; Feature extraction; Social network services; Stability analysis; Visualization; complex networks; dynamics analysis; group evolution; group identification; social networks analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN), 2012 Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sao Carlos
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4793-8
DOI :
10.1109/CASoN.2012.6412375