Social Network Analysis, a modern technique for collaborative activities and networking relationship measuring and mapping

Innovative knowledge

The fundamental difference between a social network explanation and a non-network explanation of a process is the inclusion of concepts and information on relationships among units in a study. Theoretical concepts are relational, pertinent data are relational, and critical tests use distributions of relational properties. Whether the model employed seeks to understand individual action in the context of structure relationships, or studies structures directly, network analysis operationalizes structures in terms of network of linkages among units. (Stanley Wasserman, Katherine Faust, Social network analysis: methods and applications)

Tools

Network analytic tools are used to represent the nodes (agents) and edges (relationships) in a network, and to analyze the network data. Like other software tools, the data can be saved in external files. Network analysis tools allow researchers to investigate large networks like the Internet, disease transmission, etc. These tools provide mathematical functions that can be applied to the network model. (Wikipedia)

Demos

For the demands of the Study on the potential of the Living Labs approach
Including its relation to experimental facilities For future Internet related technologies
the SNA-related results have been analyzed with the program Ucinet 6 for Windows, Version 6.181, and visualized with NetDraw 2.074 Graph Visualization Software.

Living Labs and FP-ICT projects included in Social Network Analysis