Introduction: Bipolar Spectrum Disorders include a variety of mood disorders from bipolar II disorder to conditions characterized by hyperthymic mood states. It has been suggested that psychosocial factors also play an important role in bipolar disorders, in this study we have used social network analysis in order to better understand the social positions of those affected by bipolar spectrum d...

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...

Human communication is commonly represented as a temporal social network, and evaluated in terms of its uniqueness. We propose a set of new entropy-based measures for human communication dynamics represented within the temporal social network as event sequences. Using real world datasets and random interaction series of different types we find that real human contact events always significantly...

Aiming at the issue of friend recommendation in social network, a friend recommendation method based on multi dimensional similarity is proposed. Compared with the existing methods, it is no longer limited to a single dimension of matching information, but from three dimensions of interest, time, and space to judge the similarity of users in different dimensionality, then it uses the similarity...

This paper addresses some aspects of the social network analysis (SNA) performed on the social-academic network that was implemented for the EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS). The EWG-DSS network is populated with over 105 members of the group and was defined with the objective of analysing and representing the various relationships that academically link the group member...

      Instagram is the fastest growing social network site globally. Instagram is an online, mobile phone photo-sharing, video-sharing, and social network service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and then share them on other platforms. The purpose of this study is to distinguish the student’s Instagram social network addiction by personality, alexithymia and attachment styles...