A Framework for Social Network of Researchers Analysis

Authors

  • Luciano Antonio Digiampietri University of Sao Paulo
  • Ernando Eduardo da Silva University of Sao Paulo

Keywords:

Social Network, Researchers Network, Data Mining

Abstract

Nowadays, a huge amount of data is available on the Web. One of the big challenges of the Computer Science is help to select, organize and summarize this data. This paper presents an initiative in this direction in order to help researchers and commissions or foundations of research to access relevant information about researchers’ groups. The approach developed combines Social Network Analysis, Graph Theory and Knowledge Discovery techniques to identify, organize, manage, visualize and summarize information about Social Network of Researchers.

Author Biographies

Luciano Antonio Digiampietri, University of Sao Paulo

Luciano Antonio Digiampietri is a full time professor at University of Sao Paulo, Brazil since 2008, acting in the undergraduate and graduate courses of Information Systems. He received the PhD in Computer Science from the University of Campinas, Brazil in 2007. Him interesting areas include Artificial Intelligence, Social Networks, Data Integration and Scientific Workflows.

Ernando Eduardo da Silva, University of Sao Paulo

Ernando Eduardo da Silva is an undergraduate student in the Information Systems course at University of Sao Paulo.

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Published

2011-02-07

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2011)

Section

Articles