Formal Concept Analysis of Social Networks

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Missaoui, Rokia (Editor), Kuznetsov, Sergei O. (Editor), Obiedkov, Sergei (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Social Networks,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Database management.; Data mining.; Artificial intelligence.; Social sciences.; Computer Science.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Database Management.; Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.

The book studies the existing and potential connections between Social Network Analysis (SNA) and Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) by showing how standard SNA techniques, usually based on graph theory, can be supplemented by FCA methods, which rely on lattice theory. The book presents contributions to...

Table of Contents:

• Knowledge Communities and Socio-Cognitive Taxonomies
• Individuality in Social Networks
• Descriptive Community Detection
• Multimodal Clustering for Community Detection
• Acquisition of Terminological Knowledge from Social Networks in the Description Logic MH
• Formal Concept Analysis of Attributed Networks
• A Formal Concept Analysis look at the Analysis of Affiliation Networks.