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Blockmodeling
Blockmodeling is a set or a coherent Conceptual framework, framework, that is used for analyzing social structure and also for setting procedure(s) for partitioning (clustering) social network's units (Node (computer science), nodes, vertices, social actor, actors), based on specific patterns, which form a distinctive structure through interconnectivity.Patrick Doreian, An Intuitive Introduction to Blockmodeling with Examples, ''BMS: Bulletin of Sociological Methodology'' / ''Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique'', January, 1999, No. 61 (January, 1999), pp. 5–34. It is primarily used in statistics, machine learning and network science. As an empirical procedure, blockmodeling assumes that all the units in a specific network can be grouped together to such extent to which they are equivalent. Regarding equivalency, it can be structural, regular or generalized.Anuška Ferligoj: Blockmodeling, http://mrvar.fdv.uni-lj.si/sola/info4/nusa/doc/blockmodeling-2.pdf Using blockmodeling, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Aleš Žiberna
Aleš Žiberna is a Slovenian people, Slovene statistician, whose specialty is Social network analysis, network analysis. His specific research interests include blockmodeling, multivariate analysis and computer intensive methods (e.g., computer simulations, resampling methods). Currently, he is employed at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana, specifically at the Chair of Social Informatics and Methodology, and Centre for Methodology and Informatics. Work In 2007, he proposed a solution to the generalized valued blockmodeling by introducing homogeneity blockmodeling with the basic idea "that the inconsistency of an empirical block with its ideal block can be measured by within block variability of appropriate values". The newly-formed ideal blocks, which are appropriate for blockmodeling of valued networks, are then presented together with the definitions of their block inconsistencies. He also (in 2007/08) develop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |