Visualizing the evolution of a web-based social network

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 677-698

  Prieto, Beatriz ^a   Tricas, Fernando ^b   Merelo, Juan J ^a   Mora, Antonio ^a   Prieto, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Application of Kohonen maps; Blogs; Neural networks; Self organizing maps; Social network evolution; Social network visualization; Social networks; Web based communities; Weblogs

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; INTERNET; MANAGEMENT; MAPS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CMS); CURRENT STATE; DYNAMIC WEBSITES; ELSEVIER (CO); EVOLUTION (CO); GROWTH TRENDS; SELF-ORGANIZING MAPS (SOM); SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL RELATIONS; SOCIAL STRUCTURES; WEBLOGS;

SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

EID: 47949105370     PISSN: 10848045     EISSN: 10958592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2007.11.003     Document Type: Article

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