Complexity Digest 2011.02 - 18

2011/01/28

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Editor-in-Chief:
Carlos Gershenson
Founding Editor: Gottfried Mayer

New System for Analyzing Information on WikiLeaks, Social Media, ScienceDaily Bookmark and Share

Excerpts: (�) has designed a system for exploring information on networks or graphs that can complement internet search engines and is of particular interest in areas related to social media, the internet, biomedicine, fraud detection, education and advanced bibliographic searches. (�) the technology can be used to extract information from WikiLeaks from two perspectives: one, to obtain generic indicators that provide information on whether the data network has the features of a social network and whether communities of data are created that can provide relevant information; and two, to use the documents hosted on the website to analyze how a topic evolves over time, (�).