Structure and Dynamics of Social Networks Revealed by Data Analysis of Actual Communication Services

Up to now, data of actual communication services obtained from communication networks, such as the volume of traffic and the number of users, has mainly been used to forecast traffic demands and provision network facilities. It can be said that this use focuses on the “quantitative” side of the data...

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Published inHandbook of Social Network Technologies and Applications pp. 23 - 43
Main Authors Aida, Masaki, Koto, Hideyuki
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY Springer US
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Cellular Phone
Communication Service
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Social Network
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Summary:Up to now, data of actual communication services obtained from communication networks, such as the volume of traffic and the number of users, has mainly been used to forecast traffic demands and provision network facilities. It can be said that this use focuses on the “quantitative” side of the data. On the other hand, such data can also illuminate several characteristics of the structures of the human society. This chapter introduces a new “qualitative” use of communication network data. We try to extract social information from the data, and investigate the universal structure of social networks that underlie the most popular communication services. Our expectation is that each communication service provides a different window on the universal social network structure. The question is how to access those windows.
ISBN:9781441971418
1441971416
DOI:10.1007/978-1-4419-7142-5_2