relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2106/
title: On the temporal analysis of scientific network evolution
creator: Amblard, Frederic
creator: Casteigts, Arnaud
creator: Flocchini, Paola
creator: Quattrociocchi, Walter
creator: Santoro, Nicola
subject: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
description: In this paper we approach the definition of new methodologies for the visualization and the exploration of social networks and their dynamics. We present a recently introduced formalism called TVG (for time-varying graphs), which was initially developed to model and analyze highly-dynamic and infrastructure-less communication networks, and TVG derived metrics. As an application context, we chose the case of scientific communities by analyzing a portion of the arXiv repository (ten years of publications in physics). We discuss the dataset by means of both static and temporal analysis of citations and co-authorships networks. Afterward, as we consider that scientific communities are at the same time communities of practice (through co-authorship) and that a citation represents a deliberative selection of a work among others, we introduce a new transformation to capture the co-existence of citations' effects and collaboration behaviors.
publisher: IEEE
date: 2011
type: Book Section
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Amblard, Frederic and Casteigts, Arnaud and Flocchini, Paola and Quattrociocchi, Walter and Santoro, Nicola  On the temporal analysis of scientific network evolution.   In:  Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN).   IEEE, pp. 169-174.  ISBN 978-1-4577-1132-9       (2011)  
relation: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6085938&isnumber=6085907
relation: 10.1109/CASON.2011.6085938