SONAR: Towards User-centric Social Network Analysis and Visualization

Author

Hütter, Christian ; Hartmann, Björn-Oliver ; Böhm, Klemens ; Heistermann, Till ; Kohlmeyer, Kevin-Simon ; Reckling, Reno ; Reiche, Martin ; Parra, David Soria

Author_Institution

Inst. for Program Struct. & Data Organ., Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol., Karlsruhe, Germany

Volume

1

fYear

2010

fDate

Aug. 31 2010-Sept. 3 2010

Firstpage

695

Lastpage

698

Abstract

Social network analysis (SNA) has attracted a lot of attention over the past years. Existing tools for SNA do not allow a user-centric analysis of the social neighborhood, i.e., the subgraph of the user´s friends and friends of a friend. In this paper, we introduce SONAR, an open source Web application for user-centric SNA. Its extensible architecture and flexible data model allows developers to embed SONAR directly into social networking websites. A performance evaluation shows that our application scales well with the number of users and adds only minimal overhead to the SNA algorithms.

Keywords

data models; data visualisation; public domain software; social networking (online); SONAR; extensible architecture; open source Web application; social networking Website; user centric social network analysis; Computer architecture; Data models; Data visualization; Servers; Social network services; Sonar; Tin; social network analysis; user centricity; web-based visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT), 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8482-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4191-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WI-IAT.2010.67

Filename

5615397