Structural analysis in multi-relational social networks

• Main Authors: DAI, Bingtian, CHUA, Freddy, LIM, Ee Peng
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1541; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2540/viewcontent/Structural_Analysis_in_Multi_Relational_Social_Networks.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Modern social networks often consist of multiple relations among individuals. Understanding the structure of such multi-relational network is essential. In sociology, one way of structural analysis is to identify different positions and roles using blockmodels. In this paper, we generalize stochasti...