George Mason University
CDS/CCDS/Statistics Colloquium Series
Seminar Announcement


Social Networks via Random Dot Product Graphs

David Marchette

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division
Advanced Computation Division


Research 1, Room 301, Fairfax Campus
George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030

Time: 10:30 a.m. Refreshments, 10:45 a.m. Colloquium Talk
Date: November 30, 2007



ABSTRACT

Social network analysis is a growing field, in part because of its applications in homeland security, but also because of the large number of applications of network analysis throughout science. In this talk I will describe a simple model of social networks derived from the idea that the more two people have in common, the more likely they share a given relationship. This model can be used to predict missing information such as missing edges; cluster the nodes in a network; and find matches for a new node within a graph. I will illustrate each of these applications of the model.