Social Network Analysis Task
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A Social Network Analysis Task is a network analysis task that accepts a social network dataset.
- AKA: Social Network Mining/Modeling.
- Context:
- Input: Social Network Data.
- It can be solved by a Social Network Analysis System (that implements a Social Network Analysis Algorithm).
- Example(s):
- a Personal Social Network Discovery Task.
- a Community Detection Task.
- find the [math]\displaystyle{ k }[/math] people that will propagate a message most broadly in [math]\displaystyle{ s }[/math] steps.
- a Citation Network Analysis Task.
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Viral Marketing.
References
2011
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network#Social_network_analysis
- Social network analysis (related to network theory) has emerged as a key technique in modern sociology. It has also gained a significant following in anthropology, biology, communication studies, economics, geography, information science, organizational studies, social psychology, and sociolinguistics, and has become a popular topic of speculation and study.
2003
- (Kempe et al., 2003) ⇒ D. Kempe, J. M. Kleinberg and Éva Tardos, (2003). “Maximizing the Spread of Influence Through a Social Network".” In: Proceedings of KDD (2003).
2001
- (McPherson et al., 2001) ⇒ Miller McPherson, Lynn Smith-Lovin, and James M Cook. (2001). “Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks.” In: Annual review of sociology.
1979
- (Tichy et al., 1979) ⇒ Noel M. Tichy, Michael L. Tushman, and Charles Fombrun. (1979). “Social Network Analysis for Organizations.” In: The Academy of Management Review, 4(4).