Poonam Rani

Work place: Faculty, NSIT - Division of Computer Engineering, Delhi University, Delhi

E-mail: poonam.rani.nsit@gmail.com

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Research Interests: Social Computing, Computer systems and computational processes, Data Structures and Algorithms, Mathematics of Computing

Biography

Mrs. Poonam Rani is Assistant Professor in Computer Engineering division of NSIT, Dwarka, New Delhi, India. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in computer engineering department under Delhi University, India. Her research interest includes Social networks and soft computing.

Author Articles
An Astute SNA with OWA Operator to Compare the Social Networks

By Poonam Rani M.P.S. Bhatia Devendra K. Tayal

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2018.03.08, Pub. Date: 8 Mar. 2018

This paper mainly focuses on the development of quantitative approach based algorithm for comparing the social networks. Firstly, comparison of social networks can be done on different parameters at all the three levels – network, group and node level characteristics. Secondly, for getting more accurate results, the paper has incorporated weights to these parameters according to their importance. For addressing these two, the paper has taken an advantage from the Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) operator in the proposed algorithm. This algorithm outputs one quantitative value for each of the social network, on which the comparison has to be made. This paper has also employed the Gephi tool, in order to accomplish the quantitative and graphical comparison between the social networks. The analysis has been done on multiple varied social network data sets. This paper has made an effort to analyze, which among them is better in terms of connectivity and coherency factors. The paper takes into account six vital metrics of the social networks so that there will be low complexity with high accuracy. They are average degree, network diameter, graph density, modularity, clustering coefficient and average path length. The proposed SNA approach is very advantageous for finding the potential group suited for a particular task in different areas like identification of criminal activities, and more fields like economics, cyber security, medicine etc.

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