Within the rapid industrialization, the noticeable environmental problems are prominent in the world. The eco-industrial park (EIP) is a new form of industrial organization. This article used the social network analysis (Social Network Analysis, SNA) to analyze the structure of the recycling production chain in Guigang (China), proving useful in the analysis of the structural characteristics of...

A social network (SN) is a network containing nodes – social entities (people or groups of people) and links between these nodes. Social networks are examples of more general concept of complex networks and SNs are usually free-scale and have power distribution of node degree. Overall, several types of social networks can be enumerated: (i) simple SNs, (ii) multi-layered SNs (with many links be...

We used a new interdisciplinary paradigm of social network analysis (SNA) to investigate associations between hormones and social network structures. We examine these biobehavioral processes and test hypotheses about how hormones are associated with social network structures using exponential random graph modeling (ERGM) in a cohort of first-year students (n=74; 93% female; M age=27 years) from...

The study of collaborative action under a situated perspective demands the adoption of an interpretative framework in which social network analysis (SNA) is combined with other methods of analysis, in order to gain insight into the processes being studied. Additionally, the complexity of CSCW situations demands the use of distinct sources of data as the input of the analysis. We introduce our p...

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) consist of radio nodes organized in a mesh topology for serving wireless mesh clients to communicate with one another or to connect to the Internet. Nodes in a mesh network can communicate with each other either directly or through one or more intermediate nodes, similar to social networks. WMNs share many common properties with social networks. We first identify t...

The focus of this study is to explore the advances that Social Network Analysis (SNA) can bring, in combination with other methods, when studying Networked Learning/ Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (NL/CSCL). We present a general overview of how SNA is applied in NL/CSCL research; we then go on to illustrate how this research method can be integrated with existing studies on NL/CSCL, ...

Social network analysis (SNA) is a widely studied research topics, which has been increasingly being applied for solving different kind of problems, including industrial manufacturing ones. This paper focuses on the application of SNA on an industrial plant layout problem. The study aims at analyzing the importance of using SNA techniques to analyze important relations between entities in a man...