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This article will focus on the nature of the course, theoretical elements, incorporated, constructs of the practical collaborative paradigms developed, examples of problems presented and student work, evaluation mechanisms, and finally course findings bot
Using Networks
...and other metaphors, to understand and influence how people think.
Jul 09, 2007
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Jul 05, 2007
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"This paper seeks to formalize the intuitive notion of a corerperiphery structure and suggests algorithms for detecting this structure, along with statistical tests for testing a priori hypotheses. Different models are presented ...
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"We took a different approach, studying the relationship between the social context of acquaintance (school, neighborhood, and online) and the structure and quality of friendships among adolescents. We relied on the proximity-similarity hypothesis that ho
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"In this paper, we explore ways of identifying actors that are not members of a given cohesive subgroup, but who are sufficiently well tied to the group to be considered peripheral members. We then use this information to explore the structure of the netw
Jun 28, 2007
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"As employees scatter around the globe, virtual teamwork has become crucial. Here are 10 rules for making it work."
Jun 05, 2007
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...ties obtained by mining e-mails archives do not necessarily provide a complete and realistic approximation of interactions by other communication media. The results of our project indicate that factors such as co-location and the nature of working rela
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"...state-of-the art overview of available (free and commercial) software for social network analysis as of fall 2003. It reviews and compares six programs, illustrating their functionality with example data."
Jun 04, 2007
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A marvellous act of generosity.
May 29, 2007
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having some problems with the installation process for this one, but I'll persevere
May 18, 2007
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"yEd is a very powerful graph editor that is written entirely in the Java programming language. It can be used to quickly and effectively generate drawings and to apply automatic layouts to a range of different diagrams and networks. " "
May 17, 2007
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"... three aspects of corproate social capital which are created by different aspects of corporate social structure ... competitive, ... political and cognitive. "
May 10, 2007
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Paper describing "a universal data interchange format to enable exchange of rich social network data and improve compatibility of analysis and visualization tools". A powerful, XML-based format.
Sunbelt XXVII - Wed, Session 1
Ehrlick, Kate (IBM) :poster
Comparing hi- and low-performing sales teams (HPT, LPT)
Leaders are not more highly rated in HPTs than in LPTs
In HPTs, leader seem to reach out & pull in info they need
- they enable team members to perform, by creating a positive, energizing work environment
Lomi, Alessandro et al (#253)
Using galois lattices & identity terms to understand organizational identity
Boolean decomposition of 3-way arrays
- a way to characterise identity space
- an identity-based notion of form
Aiming for representation of multiple audiences
very interesting, but only realised afterwards that I'd missed Andrea Knecht as a result (#213).
Jonak, Lucasz (#196) – between efficiency and innovativeness
Data: IT consulting company
Driven by imperative for innovation
Organizational (triads?): decentralization into communities of interest
- connected not by market niche by “abstract skill”, e.g. Java
- specifically by a “Project Affiliation Network” – halfway between an org chart and a map of informal communication
- reflects some aspects of actual communication and organizational design
- effectively a 2-mode network
- 3(?) snapshots of the organization over time
- Org separated by niche (?) in 3rd snapshot – clustering co-eff’t increased
- cf. Cross’ archetypes of Network Organizations (2005)
Introduced E-I index (homogeneity)
Also social capital (Burt 92, 05)
- brokerage (structural holes, vision, innovation)
- & closure (embeddedness, reputation, learning)
It appears that the org started to learn standard company solutions better as closure happened. Hypothesized that the company is innovative because of social capital.
Cf. Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety – interpreted here as ‘in order for one system to control another, it must be capable of at least as much internal variety as the other
Mark Round
A cognitive scientist and social network analyst working for a very tolerant employer (QinetiQ), with a passion for understanding how organisations think.
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