Proximity, interactions, and communities in social networks : properties and applications
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Authors
Nguyen, Tommy
Issue Date
2014-12
Type
Electronic thesis
Thesis
Thesis
Language
ENG
Keywords
Computer science
Alternative Title
Abstract
Social network analysis, in the form of network theory, where nodes are humans and edges are social relationships between humans, have a wide range of applications in information science, political science, social science, economics, etc. The availability of data from location-based online social media such as Gowalla and FourSquare has helped scientists model and analyze human relationships and their interactions. In this thesis, we use such data to analyze multiple dimensions of social relationships in terms of three specific aspects: geographical proximity of nodes, their face-to-face interactions, and the structure of their communities. Then we incorporate these three aspects of social relationships into the following applications.
Description
December 2014
School of Science
School of Science
Full Citation
Publisher
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY