Social and Information Networks

Understanding the intersection between social networks and information networks

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Analysis of Academic Activity Patterns in Academic Literature

Time frame
2017-2017
Investigators
Jana Diesner, Vetle Torvik
Total funding to date
$25,000.00
Funding agency
Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information

The project team will work on extracting key concepts from scholarly publications and explore techniques for building a taxonomy of extracted concepts by leveraging open knowledge bases (e.g., Wikipedia). The outcome of this process will be evaluated for various science and technology knowledge platform-based analysis services. The techniques, which reduce semantic ambiguity, will analyze…

Detecting, Characterizing, Tracking and Forecasting Rare Events in Multi-Sourced Networks: An Application in Analyzing Isolated Malicious Activities

Time frame
2019-2020
Investigator
Jingrui He
Total funding to date
$163,145.00
Funding agency
Arizona State University

This project targets the challenging problem of combating diverse Isolated, Malicious Activities (IMAs), or "lone wolf" attacks, such as homegrown violent extremist attacks. Although IMAs seem completely isolated from one another, without outside direction or communication, IMAs share some common traits when examined under the proper lens (e.g., from the right/relevant data sources, in the…

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III: Small: Predictive Analysis of Diabetes Dedicated Social Networks

Time frame
2019-Present
Investigator
Jingrui He
Total funding to date
$448,049.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

This project will study diabetes dedicated social networks. It aims to harness diabetes patients' online social behaviors from multiple networks to predict their biomarker measurements such as glycated hemoglobin and fasting blood glucose. This project will provide a paradigm shift from exploration to prediction compared with state-of-the-art research on diabetes dedicated social networks,…

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Information Forum Requirements to Promote Knowledge Capture, Knowledge Sharing, and Community Interaction on the VHA Data Portal

Time frame
2014-2020
Investigators
Catherine Blake, Michael Twidale
Total funding to date
$162,953.00
Funding agency
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

iSchool faculty members Catherine Blake and Michael Twidale are working as expert advisors to the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Information Resource Center (VIReC) on a project to analyze the socio-technical aspects of VA’s HSRData-L Listserv. VIReC is a VA Health Service Research & Development Service (HSR&D) resource center that supports VA researchers in need of information…

NCSA Faculty Fellowship: Predictive Modeling for Impact Assessment

Time frame
2015-2016
Investigator
Jana Diesner
Total funding to date
$24,323.00
Funding agency
National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Assistant Professor Jana Diesner a received an Faculty Fellowship and seed funding for her project, “Predictive Modeling for Impact Assessment,” from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Diesner collaborates closely with NCSA scientists on the project, which builds on her work developing computational solutions…

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