Towards a scale free network approach to study organizational communication network

PACIS 2010 - 14th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1937-1944

  Uddin, Mohammed ^a   Murshed, Shahriar Tanvir Hasan ^a   Hossain, Liaquat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Centrality; Communication network; Power law distribution; Scale free network; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

CENTRALITY; COMMUNICATION NETWORK; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; SCALE FREE NETWORKS; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS;

COMMUNICATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 84856008533     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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