International Workshop on Web Intelligence and Virtual Enterprises 2 (2010) 1 A comparative study of social network analysis tools David Combe1 ∗ , Christine Largeron1 , El˝od Egyed-Zsigmond2 and Mathias Géry1 Université de Lyon 1 CNRS, UMR 5516,...
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International Workshop on Web Intelligence and Virtual Enterprises 2 (2010) 1 A comparative study of social network analysis tools David Combe1 ∗ , Christine Largeron1 , El˝od Egyed-Zsigmond2 and Mathias Géry1 Université de Lyon 1 CNRS, UMR 5516, Laboratoire Hubert Curien, F-42000, Saint-Étienne, France Université de Saint-Étienne, Jean-Monnet, F-42000, Saint-Étienne, France Email: {david.combe, christine.largeron, mathias.gery}@univ-st-etienne.fr 2 UMR 5205 CNRS, LIRIS 7 av J. Capelle, F 69100 Villeurbanne, France Email: elod.egyed-zsigmond@insa-lyon.fr Abstract. Social networks have known an important development since the appearance of web 2.0 platforms. This leads to a growing need for social network mining and social network analysis (SNA) methods and tools in order to provide deeper analysis of the network but also to detect communities in view of various applications. For this reason, a lot of works have focused on graph characterization or clustering and several new SNA tools h
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