Sunbelt XXXI International Network for Social Network ... - INSNA

Efficient Structures For Innovative Social NetworksLovejoy, William S.; Sinha, AmitabhInnovation, Diffusion, and the Adoption of TechnologySimulation, Network Analysis, Innovation Networks, Group Communication, Core/periphery, Information SearchWED.PM1What lines of communication among members of an organization are most productive in the early, ideation phase of innovation? We investigate this questionwith a recombination and selection model of knowledge transfer operating through a social network. We find that ideation is accelerated when people in theorganization dynamically churn through a large (ideally the entire population) set of conversational partners over time, which naturally begets short pathlengths and eliminates information bottlenecks. Group meetings, in which the content of conversations is available to all for consideration, are another way tolearn in parallel and accelerate the ideation process, although for complex problems they may not offer significant advantages over the best decentralizednetworks. The idealized core‐periphery graphs emerge as an important family on the time‐cost efficient frontier. New sociometrics for the analyses ofinnovation processes emerge from this investigation.Elbirt Technologies Software Suite ‐ The Next Generation In Data Visualization And Analysis Using Network Analysis MethodologyElbirt, Benjamin S.Poster SessionIntonation, Visualization, Animation, Longitudinal, Software, Semantic NetworksSAT.PM3This poster presentation will provide an overview of the latest software to be released by Benjamin Elbirt. The software demonstrations include ET‐V 1.0,USNAA 1.0 and M2C 4.0. ET‐V 1.0 is the latest visualization, animation and intonation application that replaces the Jacob's Ladder (Elbirt, 2005 & 2009a &2009b) software line. The software has been completely rebuilt with the latest JOGL (2.1), updated to use XLS and XLSX files (Microsoft Excel) and includesmany new features that improve the overall display and performance. M2C 4.0 is the latest Matrix to Coordinates conversion program that uses the latestMDSJ (Brandes & Pich, 2007) and a customized Procrustes rotation algorithm for longitudinal analysis. Inputs include pairs or matrix, text delimited orXLS/XLSX files. Outputs are in XLSX files and include various calculations and formats including ET‐V. USNAA 1.0 is a co‐occurrence semantic text analysisapplication that uses network measures to create token (word) clusters (Elbirt, 2010) for improved semantic network outputs. The software will also calculatevarious measures of centrality, generate rotated coordinates (M2C functionality) and output ET‐V content files for easy use in ET‐V. All software will bepresented on a laptop with a poster for overview definition. Examples will be shown using data generated from 2001 through 2010 Sunbelt abstracts.