Towards dynamic visualization for understanding evolution of digital communication networks

Information Systems Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 335-350

  Trier, Matthias ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Communities; Dynamic network analysis; Email; Evolution; Network dynamics; Network visualization; Online communication; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; VISUALIZATION;

DYNAMIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; NETWORK DYNAMICS; NETWORK VISUALIZATION; ON-LINE COMMUNICATION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 61349162458     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1080.0191     Document Type: Article

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