Cyberspace Community Analysis and Simulation Using Complex Dynamic Social Networks

摘要

Social network analysis (SNA) is the study of social relations among a set of actors. It is an emerging discipline that maps and measures the relationships between people, groups, organizations, computers or other information processing entities. SNA has been widely applied into many areas. In this paper, we present SNAC (Social Network Analysis in Cyberspace), a prototype system for extracting, analyzing, visualizing and simulating the relations between users and user groups in Internet communities. Communications among the members of such Internet communities are analyzed to reveal social relationship structures. Link analysis and content similarities are combined in this analysis.