Cohesive group detection in a social network by the segregation matrix index

Social Networks

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 193-207

  Fershtman, Meir ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ORT BRAUDE COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cohesive groups; Network; Segregation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031206501     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-8733(96)00295-X     Document Type: Article

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