Social network analysis has drawn the attention of many researchers recently. As the advance of communication technologies, the scale of social networks grows rapidly. To capture the characteristics of very large social networks, graph sampling is an important approach that does not require visiting the entire network. Prior studies on graph sampling focused on preserving the properties such as...

Social networks are flourishing because of fast growing Internet and the World Wide Web, and more research efforts have been put on Social Network Analysis (SNA). A social network can be modeled like a graph, where the nodes represent persons, and an edge between them represent direct relationship between the persons. One of the issues in SNA is to identifying criminals from groups of individua...

social capital is a concept which has attracted the attention of scientists in various fields including management in recent years. the literature on social capital concept has several dimensions and indicators and their relation with many other variables has been studied. the important point is that although the dimensions and indicators can be analyzed separately, they are not isolated and th...

This essay is about a special kind of social networks called ego networks. Like other networks, they are made up of social units persons, groups or organizations and social relations like marriage or friendship that Iink pairs of units into some sort of overall patterned structure. Ego networks, however, are special in that they are built around a particular social unit designated a!, ego. To u...

Recently, there has been increasing interest in data analysis for network structured data. The network structured data is represented the relation between one data and other data by graph structure. There are many network structured data such as social networks, biological networks in the real world. In this study, we will analysis the network structured data that has dynamic relation and compl...

Political elite’s relations for maintaining power is an important key to analyse the government’s behaviour. This paper presents a new network policy among the Iranian political elite using Social Network Analysis Method. How do they make the network? Is there Elite to Elite family relation based on ideological united or common interests? Network boundary is the political elites who have kinshi...