SCI: Workshop: The Role of Social Network Research in Enabling Cyberinfrastructure and the Role of Cyberinfrastructure in Enabling Social Network, Champaign-Urbana, IL

题为“社会网络研究在促进网络基础设施方面的作用和数字基础设施在促进社会网络研究方面的作用”的国际讲习班将社会网络分析领域的主要研究人员和从业人员与正在为各自社区开发网络基础设施的主要科学家和工程师聚集在一起。讲习班将帮助科学界和工程界了解社交网络工具的潜力，以加强由网络基础设施支持的社区内的通信和知识网络。传统上，社交网络分析的重点是小型的“单一模式”或双峰附属网络。研讨会将帮助社交网络分析社区确定研究议程，以扩展现有的理论、方法和计算工具，以实现大规模和多维网络。通过将不同科学和工程社区的领先社会网络研究人员和领先的网络基础设施开发人员聚集在一起，讲习班还将促进：(I)在社会和行为科学中广泛应用的新的数学和统计模型的规范，(Ii)开发和扩展可扩展的算法，以分析和可视化这些网络社区中存在的大规模和多维网络，以及(Iii)开发和扩展高级用户驱动的软件和网络服务，这些软件和网络服务实现这些算法，以帮助网络社区的成员利用他们的通信和知识网络。更广泛的影响：讲习班将为社会网络分析研究界(涉及许多学科，但特别是社会学、心理学、传播学、组织科学、信息科学和经济学)和网络基础设施的主要开发者(涉及包括大气科学、地球科学、环境工程、生态研究和公共卫生在内的许多学科)之间的共生见解交流提供一种独特的手段。讲习班将帮助网络学者和学生确定社交网络的挑战和机会，以便在网络基础设施内开展研究和教育。这将导致将知识和成果从专门的社会网络研究领域直接转移到更广泛的科学界，探索其领域内网络基础设施的发展。讲习班还将评估开发社会网络分析数码基础设施的可行性和轮廓，以促进网络分析、建模、可视化研究和教育。来自这些不同社区的研究人员的广泛组合具有释放新一代关于社交网络和21世纪网络基础设施的作用的理论、教育和实践的潜力。

The International Workshop entitled "The Role of Social Network Research in Enabling Cyberinfrastructure and the Role of Cyberinfrastructure in Enabling Social Network Research" brings together leading researchers and practitioners in social network analysis with key scientists and engineers who are in the process of developing cyberinfrastructure for their respective communities. The Workshop will help acquaint the scientific and engineering community with the potential of social networking tools to enhance the communication and knowledge networks within the communities supported by cyberinfrastructure. Traditionally, social network analysis has focused on small and "single mode" or bimodal affiliation networks. The workshop will help the social network analysis community in identifying a research agenda for extending existing theory, methodology, and computational tools to enable large-scale and multidimensional networks. By bringing together leading social network researchers and leading developers of cyberinfrastructure in diverse science and engineering communities, the Workshop will also promote: (i) the specification of new mathematical and statistical models with broad application in the social and behavioral sciences, (ii) the development and extension of scalable algorithms to analyze and visualize the large scale and multidimensional networks that exist within these cybercommunities, and (iii) the development and extension of advanced user-driven software and web services that implement these algorithms to help members of a cybercommunity leverage their communication and knowledge networks. Broader impacts: The Workshop will offer a unique means for a symbiotic exchange of insights between the social network analysis research community (which cuts across many disciplines, but especially sociology, psychology, communication, organizational science, information science and economic) and the key developers of cyberinfrastructure (which cuts across many disciplines including atmospheric sciences, geo sciences, environmental engineering, ecological research, and public health). The Workshop will help network scholars and students identify the challenges as well as the opportunities of social networking to enable research and education within a cyberinfrastructure. This will result in a direct transfer of knowledge and results from the fields of specialist social network research to wider scientific communities exploring the development of cyberinfrastructure in their fields. The workshop will also assess the viability and contours of developing a Social Network Analysis Cyberinfrastructure for advancing network analysis, modeling, visualization research and education. The broad mix of researchers from these various communities has the potential to unleash a new generation of theory, education, and practice on the role of social networking and 21st century cyberinfrastructure.