Visualizing social network concepts

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 151-161

  Zhu, Bin ^a   Watts, Stephanie ^a   Chen, Hsinchun ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Information analysis; Information categorization; Network visualization; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK SYSTEM; BETWEENNESS CENTRALITY; CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; INFORMATION CATEGORIZATION; NETWORK VISUALIZATION; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 77951140110     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2010.02.001     Document Type: Article

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