Company Networks Analysis

This book is dealing with some approaches to analysis of specific social networks called company networks. These company networks emerge from interactions between companies, where a lot of these interactions are recorded by publicly accessible sources. Our work is designing and implementing methods of heterogeneous sources’ cleansing, aggregation and integration into comprehensive data model of company network. Later data transformations for analyses as various projections of company networks are designed, implemented and evaluated. Main part of our work is dedicated to meso-level structural analysis, mainly analysis of local structures and local structure pattern detection, where approaches to large-scale network decomposition and positional analysis of local structures are designed and implemented. All of the designed and implemented methods are experimentally tested on concrete instance of company network – Slovak Company Network.