social capital is one of the most important criteria related to social network resilience. in trust networks as the most important factor of social capital in adaptive governance, sensitivity to disorders and irregularities is considerable and resiliency improvement and compatibility capacity depends on trust level in network. this research is applied in zangooi village, south khorasan province...

Network analysis has driven key developments in animal behavior research by providing quantitative methods to study the social structure of animal groups and populations. A recent advancement in network science, multilayer network analysis, the study of network structures of multiple interconnected ‘layers’, offers a novel way to represent and analyze the structure of animal behavior, and help ...

Network science has released its talents in social network analysis based on the information of static topologies. In reality social contacts are dynamic and evolve concurrently in time. Nowadays they can be recorded by ubiquitous information technologies, and generated into temporal social networks to provide new sights in social reality mining. Here, we define circle link to measure contextua...

Because people have different levels of engagement with each other, measuring social relations is difficult. In this work, we propose a method of measuring social relations with multiple datasets and demonstrate the differences with empirical evidence. Our empirical findings demonstrate that people use different communication media channels differently. Therefore, we suggest that in order to un...

The concept of social capital, which has gained wide currency in the literature, examines how actors’ ties to others advantage or disadvantage them and the groups to which they belong. Two conceptually distinct types of social capital, closure and brokerage in Burt’s (2005) terms, have been identified. In this paper, we propose a method by which brokerage and closure can be distinguished using ...

Social Network Analysis (SNA) is a set of research procedures for identifying group of people who share common structures in systems based on the relations among actors. Grounded in graph and system theories, this approach has proven to be powerful measures for studying networks in various industries like Telecommunication, banking, physics and social world, including on the web. Since Telecomm...

Social network analysis offers many measures, which are successfully utilized to describe the social network profile. One of them is node position, useful to assess the importance of a given node within both the whole network and its smaller subgroups. However, to analyze large social networks a lot of effort and resources are necessary. In this paper, some algorithms that can be utilized in th...

The PhD thesis is one of the most important expressions of research in the humanities, and provides a fairly good representation of the personal interests of researchers. It also represents the culmination of the education of students, in which they are asked to present an original research project and demonstrate their research skills to a thesis defence committee composed of university lectur...