Online professional social networks are becoming an instrumental tool to facilitate relationships between business and technology professionals for career success. Even though tools such as LinkedIn can be used to manage human capital for career success use and adoption still is not universally accepted. This paper seeks to better understand the effect university, gender, and degree type has on...

Previous studies on adoption and diffusion of a new product in a social network commonly assumed a single tie between a pair of actors. That means they only looked at one type of relation, while analyzing a diffusion process. However, we may have multiple ties between a pair of actors as multiple relations can arise from different modes of interaction or because of different roles people play w...

The lack of large realistic datasets presents a bottleneck in online deception detection studies. In this paper, we apply a data collection method based on social network analysis to quickly identify highquality deceptive and truthful online reviews1 from Amazon. The dataset contains more than 10,000 deceptive reviews and is diverse in product domains and reviewers. Using this dataset, we explo...

Social network analysis is a large and growing body of research on the measurement and analysis of relational structure. Here, we review the fundamental concepts of network analysis, as well as a range of methods currently used in the field. Issues pertaining to data collection, analysis of single networks, network comparison, and analysis of individual-level covariates are discussed, and a num...

Understanding factors that enhance or diminish learning and adaptability levels of individuals is instrumental in achieving individual and organizational performance goals. In this study, the effect of social network structure on learning attitudes of emergency personnel during an emergency event is investigated. Based on social network theories, and the social influence model of learning, a th...

The social relationships between development agencies, non-governmental organizations, private companies, and other groups working on development projects play an important role in the overall success of projects. However, traditional project selection and prioritization processes ignore the organizational relationships. This paper proposes to integrate social network analysis into multi-criter...

The plurality of healthcare providers and funders in lowand middle-income countries (LMICs) has given rise to an era in which health partnerships are becoming the norm in international development. Whether mandated or emergent, three common drivers are essential for ensuring successful health partnerships: trust; a diverse and inclusive network; and a clear governance structure. Mandated and em...

It is well known that any bipartite (social) network can be regarded as a formal context (G,M, I). Therefore, such networks give raise to formal concept lattices which can be investigated utilizing the toolset of Formal Concept Analysis (FCA). In particular, the notion of clones in closure systems on M , i. e., pairwise interchangeable attributes that leave the closure system unchanged, suggest...