Visual analysis of large heterogeneous social networks by semantic and structural abstraction.
IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph
; 12(6): 1427-39, 2006.
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ABSTRACT
Social network analysis is an active area of study beyond sociology. It uncovers the invisible relationships between actors in a network and provides understanding of social processes and behaviors. It has become an important technique in a variety of application areas such as the Web, organizational studies, and homeland security. This paper presents a visual analytics tool, OntoVis, for understanding large, heterogeneous social networks, in which nodes and links could represent different concepts and relations, respectively. These concepts and relations are related through an ontology (also known as a schema). OntoVis is named such because it uses information in the ontology associated with a social network to semantically prune a large, heterogeneous network. In addition to semantic abstraction, OntoVis also allows users to do structural abstraction and importance filtering to make large networks manageable and to facilitate analytic reasoning. All these unique capabilities of OntoVis are illustrated with several case studies.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Apoio Social
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Algoritmos
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Gráficos por Computador
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Interface Usuário-Computador
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Armazenamento e Recuperação da Informação
Idioma:
En
Revista:
IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph
Assunto da revista:
INFORMATICA MEDICA
Ano de publicação:
2006
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos