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Showing 1 to 20 of 297 for “"Social network analysis"”.
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Privacy-preserving social network analysis
<p>Data privacy in social networks is a growing concern that threatens to limit access to important information contained in these data structures. Analysis of the graph structure of social networks can provide valuable information for revenue generation and social science research, but …
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Social network analysis in college choice.
This research paper employs Social Network Analysis to examine the effect of peer groups on the college application process, taking Baylor University as a case study. Degree centrality and eigenvector centrality are two centrality measures used as interested independent variables. Findings reveal …
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Policy issue networks: Social network analysis case studies
This research demonstrates that Social Network Analysis (SNA) can be a powerful, proactive tool for policy makers to understand the online policy networks in which they operate. It does so by undertaking SNA at two points in time to quantify the actor nodes of three Canadian public policy networks, …
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Effective and Efficient Methodologies for Social Network Analysis
Performing social network analysis (SNA) requires a set of powerful techniques to analyze structural information contained in interactions between social entities. Many SNA technologies and methodologies have been developed and have successfully provided significant insights for small-scale …
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Social Network Analysis using Cultural Algorithms and its Variants
Finding relationships between social entities and discovering the underlying structures of networks are fundamental tasks for analyzing social networks. In recent years, various methods have been suggested to study these networks efficiently, however, due to the dynamic and complex nature that these …
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Essays on Law Enforcement Misconduct and Social Network Analysis
… dissertation uses tools from the intersection of social network analysis and organisational justice theory to examine the settings of, causes of, and responses to law enforcement misconduct. It comprises four essays, connected by their common focus on the social organisation of law enforcement as …
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Internationalisation of public services: a social network analysis of global ownership
… Unit (PSIRU) that enables an empirically based analysis of arguments about the outcomes of utilities' privatisation in the light of the globalisation debate. The main methodology used as a basis for a critical assessment of theories of globalisation is social network analysis. The thesis is …
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Graph methods in Multi Agent Systems Coordination and Social Network Analysis
… main topics are collected: the coordination of networked multi agents systems and the diffusion of innovation of social networks. The results are organized in two parts, each one related with one of the two main topics. The common aspect of all the presented problems is the following: all the …
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Analyzing Asynchronous Online Interactions Through Social Network Analysis Techniques and Visualizations
"This study was mainly concerned with theoretical and methodological issues, but it has very practical implications. If instructors are provided with more information about class interactions, they may be able to make judgments about class design. Especially, if they would have this information …
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Design and analysis of fuzzy systems supported by social network analysis techniques
… methodology for fuzzy system comprehensibility analysis based on fuzzy systems' inference maps, so-called fuzzy inference-grams, Fingrams in short. Fingrams show graphically fuzzy rule-based systems, presenting the interaction between rules at the inference level in terms of co-fired rules, …
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Expanding the Network Evaluation Toolkit: Combining Social Network Analysis & Qualitative Comparative Analysis
<p>Collective action networks are complex systems of interrelated individuals or groups that come together for a common social change purpose (Ernstson, 2011). Researchers have used social network analysis (SNA) to examine the relationship structures and characteristics of collective action …
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The influence of family and friends on girls' delinquency: a social network analysis
… factors of girls’ delinquency by applying social network methodology to principles of adolescent development. Peers are an integral aspect of adolescent development and therefore the influence of peer relationships serves as an important area of exploration in delinquency research. While …
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Three Essays on Hispanics: the Use of Spanish, Content Analysis and Social Network Analysis
… Congress communicate by focusing on their use of social media. To do so this research is divided into three main sections and uses original datasets created by the author. Specifically, this research uses Twitter data by the official Twitter Accounts of Hispanic Members of Congress. Using an …
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A social network analysis of interschool collaboration: staff relationships in a shared education partnership
This thesis reports on the social structures underpinning interschool collaboration in the context of Shared Education and the networks of staff relations that have been developed for the purpose of overcoming systemic separation. Drawing upon social network theory, it is argued that in order to …
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Predicting the Outcomes of Important Events based on Social Media and Social Network Analysis
Twitter is a famous social network website that lets users post their opinions about current affairs, share their social events, and interact with others. It has now become one of the largest sources of news, with over 200 million active users monthly. It is possible to predict the outcomes of …
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Applying Data Mining and Social Network Analysis Techniques in a Land Tenure Information System
Network of social relationships are fundamental attribute of land tenure systems. The primary objective of this research is to develop an evolutionary TTM-based LTIS to cater for requirements dictated by the rapidly evolving social, political and economic conditions in peri-urban communities and to …
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Know your place - Social network analysis in cooperatively breeding white-winged choughs (Corcorax melanorhamphos)
Cooperative breeding is a specialised type of social system in which individuals work together as a group to raise young. This breeding system entails variable costs and benefits for individuals based on their position in group social structure. Social network analysis has become an important tool …
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Know your place - Social network analysis in cooperatively breeding white-winged choughs (Corcorax melanorhamphos)
Cooperative breeding is a specialised type of social system in which individuals work together as a group to raise young. This breeding system entails variable costs and benefits for individuals based on their position in group social structure. Social network analysis has become an important tool …
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Evaluation of decentralized email architecture and social network analysis based on email attachment sharing
… There is an extensive body of research on Social Network Analysis (SNA) based on email archives. Typically, the analyzed network reflects either communication between users or a relationship between the email and the information found in the email's header and the body. This approach …
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Coolhunting and Coolfarming : harnessing the power of collaborative innovation networks using social network analysis
… other and form relationships, we weave intricate Social Networks that can be analyzed and exhibit communication patterns that can be quantified. In this thesis I have applied Social Network Analysis based techniques that constitute Coolhunting (Gloor & Cooper, 2007) to analyze E-Mail and WebEx …
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