Social Network Analysis (SNA) – Web Resources

This is a growing list of companies that are using Social Network Analysis already or are planning to use it in the future:

• Saba Software. See here for a video "The Ask" that shows the use of Social Network Analysis in context of enterprise collaboration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkP49rBrq68.
• Skype. See here: Post-doc research announcement (from DBWorld).
• Telefonica. See here: Ruben Lara (from LinkedIn).

This is a growing list of companies that are providing Social Network Analysis:

• 7 Degrees. Home Page: https://www.7-degrees.com/
• Product PeopleMaps: https://www.7-degrees.com/products.html
• PeopleMaps integrated in Salesforce.com (YouTube video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfg2SH2GjWc&feature=player_embedded
• FMS Advanced Systems Group. Home page: https://fmsasg.com/
• Sentinel Visualizer: https://fmsasg.com/Products/SentinelVisualizer/index.asp
• YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75QOz69EnJ4
• orgnet.com. Home page: https://www.orgnet.com/index.html.
• Salesforce.com (Chatter).
• YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32pNZCvfEb0&feature=related
• YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jHrEjwtk3g&feature=related

Here are some research organizations that are researching into Social Network Analysis:

• Clique. Home page: https://www.cliquecluster.org/.
• Integration Informatics Laboratory. Home page: https://integra.cs.wayne.edu/index.php
• International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA). Home page: https://www.insna.org/index.html.
• Software Technology and Applications Competence Center (STACC). Home page: https://www.stacc.ee/en. The project page mentions "The analysis of the social networks and usage logs for a broad selection of business needs from advertising to understanding the user behavior and dynamic aspects of the evolution of the networks" (https://www.stacc.ee/projects).

This is a significant list of technologies that play or could play a role in Social Network Analysis:

Graph Visualization

• Graphviz - Graph Visualization Software. Home page: https://www.graphviz.org/. This is work coming out of AT&T Labs: https://www.research.att.com/software_tools
• Java Universal Network/Graph Framework. Home page: https://jung.sourceforge.net/.

Analysis

• Weka. Home page: https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/weka/index.html.

Graph Databases

• AllegroGraph. https://www.franz.com/agraph/allegrograph/
• Neo4j. https://neo4j.org/
• Interesting article about Neo4j and related technologies: https://www.infoq.com/articles/graph-nosql-neo4j

Non-Graph Databases

• HadoopDB. https://db.cs.yale.edu/hadoopdb/hadoopdb.html
• Blog: https://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2009/07/announcing-release-of-hadoopdb-longer.html
• Research Publication: https://db.cs.yale.edu/hadoopdb/hadoopdb.pdf [Cached]
• MongoDB. https://www.mongodb.org/
• VoltDB. https://voltdb.com/
• Blog: https://highscalability.com/blog/2010/6/28/voltdb-decapitates-six-sql-urban-myths-and-delivers-internet.html

There are interesting research results available around Social Network Analysis as well as ongoing research:

• DERI. Large-Scale Dynamic Network Analysis, Mining and Modelling. PhD Studentship: research/2010_06_25_Jobs.pdf.
• IsoSearch. Announcement: research/IsoSearch.pdf.
• Search Computing (SeCo). Home page: https://www.search-computing.org/; news: research/SeCo.pdf.
• Social Network Image Animator. Home page: https://www.stanford.edu/group/sonia/.
• University of California - Santa Barbara. Network Science Group. Research Scientist: research/2010_07_14_Job.pdf.

There is a huge number of publications in the domain.

Publications

• A Conversation with Jeff Heer, Martin Wattenberg, and Fernanda Viégas. https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1744741 [Cached]
• A Tour through the Visualization Zoo. https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1805128 [Cached]
• Linking of User Profiles and Applications in the Social Semantic Web (LUPAS) Workshop. https://www.personal-reader.de/lupas/ [Cached] Cached papers: [Paper 1] [Paper 2] [Paper 3] [Paper 4] [Paper 5]

Search

• Amazon. Search for "social network analysis": https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=social+network+analysis.
• Google Patents. Search for "social network analysis": https://www.google.com/patents?q=social+network+analysis.
• Google Scholar. Search for "social network analysis": https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=social+network+analysis.
• United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Search for "social network analysis": https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=social+network+analysis&FIELD1=&co1=AND&TERM2=&FIELD2=&d=PTXT.
• YouTube. Search for "social network analysis": https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=semantic+network+analysis&aq=f.

Analysts picked up Social Network Analysis, too, and here are some links:

• Monash Research
• Social network analysis, aka relationship analytics. https://www.dbms2.com/2009/08/21/social-network-analysis-aka-relationship-analytics/ [Cached]
• The most important part of the “social graph” is neither social nor a graph. https://www.dbms2.com/2010/06/08/profile-of-revealed-preferences/ [Cached]

There are requests for information in this space, albeit rarly found. Here are some:

• Request for Information (RFI) - DARPA-SN-10-46 - Suspected Malicious Insider Threat Elimination (SMITE). https://www.darpa.mil/ipto/solicit/baa/RFI-SN-10-46_PIP.pdf [Cached]

Interest in this area can be measured also in terms of call for papers, book chapters, workshops and conferences:

Call for Chapters

• 05/25/2010: Social Networking and Community Behavior Modeling: Qualitative and Quantitative Measures
• 05/25/2010: Social Network Mining, Analysis and Research Trends: Techniques and Applications
• 06/06/2010: Social Networking and Community Behavior Modeling: Qualitative and Quantitative Measures
• 06/13/2010: Social Networking and Community Behavior Modeling: Qualitative and Quantitative Measures
• 06/18/2010: LEARNING STRUCTURE AND SCHEMAS FROM DOCUMENTS
• 06/20/2010: Social Networking and Community Behavior Modeling: Qualitative and Quantitative Measures

Call for Papers

• 03/15/2010: International Workshop on Linking of User Profiles and Applications in the Social Semantic Web
• 05/25/2010: The 14th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
• 05/26/2010: The Fourth International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing
• 05/27/2010: The First International Workshop on Querying Graph Structured Data (GraphQ 2010)
• 05/28/2010: The 2010 Workshop on Social Interactions Analysis and Services Providers (SIASP)
• 05/28/2010: 6th International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing
• 06/01/2010: 1st International and ECML/PKDD 2010 Workshop on MINING UBIQUITOUS AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTS (MUSE)
• 06/03/2010: DBKDA 2011: The Third International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications
• 06/07/2010: 4th International Workshop on Applications of Information Management and Integration in Digital Ecosystems
• 06/08/2010: Workshop on Data Mining with Graphs and Matrices (WDGM’10)
• 06/08/2010: The First International Workshop on Querying Graph Structured Data (GraphQ 2010)
• 06/08/2010: The 2010 Workshop on Social Interactions Analysis and Services Providers (SIASP)
• 06/09/2010: First Workshop on Analysing Complex NEtworks 2010 (ACNE-2010)
• 06/09/2010: 18th International Conference on COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CoopIS 2010)
• 06/11/2010: Fourth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2011)
• 06/11/2010: First International Workshop on Micro-Contributions by the Masses - The Future of Tagging and Microblogging (TAGS 2010)
• 06/17/2010: Fifth International Workshop on MObile and NEtworking Technologies for social applications(MONET´10)
• 06/19/2010: Workshop on Dynamic Networks and Knowledge Discovery (DyNaK 2010)
• 06/19/2010: Statistical Analysis and Data Mining of Networks Special Issue of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining
• 06/20/2010: First Workshop on Analysing Complex NEtworks 2010 (ACNE-2010)
• 06/20/2010: Fourth International Workshop on "Personalized Access, Profile Management, and Context Awareness in Databases"
• 06/21/2010: 16th International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD 2010)
• 06/22/2010: 18th International Conference on COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CoopIS 2010)
• 06/24/2010: The 2010 Workshop on Social Interactions Analysis and Services Providers (SIASP)
• 06/29/2010: The International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA2010)
• 07/06/2010: IEEE ICDM WORKSHOP ON VISUAL ANALYTICS AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY: INTEGRATING AUTOMATED ANALYSIS, INTERACTIVE EXPLORATION, ANALYTICS AND VISUAL REASONING
• 07/07/2010: 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Privacy Aspects of Data Mining
• 07/14/2010: First International Workshop on Micro-Contributions by the Masses - The Future of Tagging and Microblogging (TAGS 2010)
• 07/21/2010: Fourth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2011)
• 07/24/2010: The 2010 Workshop on Social Interactions Analysis and Services Providers (SIASP)
• 07/25/2010: First International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Disaster Management (CIDM-2010)
• 07/29/2010: IEEE ICDM WORKSHOP ON VISUAL ANALYTICS AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY: INTEGRATING AUTOMATED ANALYSIS, INTERACTIVE EXPLORATION, ANALYTICS AND VISUAL REASONING

Call for Poster or Demos

• 05/25/2010: International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - EKAW

Call for Participation

• 06/11/2010: Call For Participation Advances in Social NetworksAnalysis and Mining
• 06/21/2010: The 2010 International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Data Mining
• 06/23/2010: The 2010 International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Data Mining
• 06/30/2010: The 2010 International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Data Mining
• 07/09/2010: The 2010 International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Data Mining
• 07/17/2010: The 2010 International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Data Mining
• 07/22/2010: 12th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery
• 08/01/2010: The 2010 International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Data Mining

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