The contribution to human and social capital accumulation is one of the most important socio-economic benefits public investment in Research Infrastructures. Sure enough, these large scientific enterprises are exceptional incubators capital, especially for early-career researchers who have opportunity gain new skills expand their network contacts highly prestigious challenging workplaces. This ...

A social network is a set of people, organizations, or other social entities connected by a set of social relationships, such as friendship, co-working or information exchange to augment social network. While the traditional forms of social networks are often constrained geographically, the emergence of social information infrastructures mediated by information and communication technologies pr...

This paper describes a novel approach based on a combination of techniques in AI, parallel computing, and network science to address an important problem in social sciences and public health: planning and responding in the event of epidemics. Spread of infectious disease is an important societal problem – human behavior, social networks, and the civil infrastructures all play a crucial role in ...

This paper studies empirically business intelligence and social network service used to leverage the performance of collaborative decision making. A model is developed and tested empirically to find out meaningful relationships among those variables. This paper examines the current trend of social media within business intelligence, the importance of integrating these types of features within a...

The design of distributed infrastructures to support remote collaboration among groups of social scientists raises new computational and networking challenges that Grid developers are currently targeting. Beyond such technical goals, however, the e-Science programme as a whole is increasingly recognizing the critical need for a comprehensive understanding of ordinary dayto-day work in the scien...