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Social Network Analysis: A Survey

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  • Darren Quinn

    (University of Ulster, UK)

  • Liming Chen

    (University of Ulster, UK)

  • Maurice Mulvenna

    (University of Ulster, UK)

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Social Network Analysis is attracting growing attention as social networking sites and their enabled applications transform and impact society. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of social network analysis state of the art research and practice. In the paper the authors’ first examine social networking and the core concepts and ingredients of social network analysis. Secondly, they review the trend of social networking and related research. The authors’ then consider modelling motivations, discussing models in line with tie formation approaches, where connections between nodes are taken into account. The authors’ outline data collection approaches along with the common structural properties observed in related literature. They then discuss future directions and the emerging approaches in social network analysis research, notably semantic social networks and social interaction analysis.

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  • Darren Quinn & Liming Chen & Maurice Mulvenna, 2012. "Social Network Analysis: A Survey," International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI), IGI Global, vol. 4(3), pages 46-58, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jaci00:v:4:y:2012:i:3:p:46-58
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