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Nasrin Jokar, Ali Reza Honarvar, Khadijeh Esfandiari & Shima Aghamirzadeh

The review of social networks analysis tools

(Volume 85 - Année 2016 — Actes de colloques — Special edition)
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Abstract

Social networks can include anything ranging from family, friends, classes, objects and other similar cases, important and effective members, members of exception, the formation of such networks can be discovered by using the relationships between the members of the network which are important to business and research works, to achieve these cases , social networks should be analyzed using special tools. Social network analysis tools generally includes two packaged based on graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and packages made for programming / scripting. These tools are powerful and extensible and are able to analyze big data networks and visualize networks, isolated or central data and other important data can be simply discovered by data visualization. In this paper, some of the most important tools of social network analysis are presented and compared according to some their capabilities.

Keywords : analysis, graphical user interface, social network analysis, Social network analysis tools, visualization

To cite this article

Nasrin Jokar, Ali Reza Honarvar, Khadijeh Esfandiari & Shima Aghamirzadeh, «The review of social networks analysis tools», Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège [En ligne], Volume 85 - Année 2016, Actes de colloques, Special edition, 329- 339 URL : https://popups.ulg.ac.be/0037-9565/index.php?id=5380.

About: Nasrin Jokar

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Safashahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Safashahr, Iran, nasrin.jokar@gmail.com

About: Ali Reza Honarvar

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Safashahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Safashahr, Iran, alireza_honarvar@shirazu.ac.ir

About: Khadijeh Esfandiari

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Safashahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Safashahr, Iran, khadijaesfandiari@gmail.com

About: Shima Aghamirzadeh

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Safashahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Safashahr, Iran, sh.aghamirzadeh2014@gmail.com