Inferring and visualizing social networks on Internet chat

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualization

Volumn 8, Issue , 2004, Pages 35-43

  Mutton, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animation; Heuristics; Inferring social networks; Internet relay chat; Irc bot; Shakespeare; Spring embedder; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INTERNET; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES; VISUALIZATION;

INFERRING SOCIAL NETWORKS; INTERNET RELAY CHAT (IRC); IRC BOT; SHAKESPEARE; SPRING EMBEDDER;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 4644285038     PISSN: 10939547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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