A comparative study of social network analysis tools David Combe, Christine Largeron, Elod Egyed-Zsigmond, Mathias Géry To cite this version: David Combe, Christine Largeron, Elod Egyed-Zsigmond, Mathias Géry. A comparative study of social network analysis tools. WEB INTELLIGENCE & VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES, Oct 2010, Saint- Etienne, France. hal-00531447 HAL Id: hal-00531447 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00531447 Submitted on 2 Nov 2010 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. 1 A comparative study of social network analysis tools David Combe1 ∗, Christine Largeron1, Elod˝ Egyed-Zsigmond2 and Mathias Géry1 Université de Lyon 1 CNRS, UMR 5516, Laboratoire Hubert Curien, F-42000, Saint-Étienne, France Université de Saint-Étienne, Jean-Monnet, F-42000, Saint-Étienne, France Email: {david.combe, christine.largeron, mathias.gery}@univ-st-etienne.fr 2 UMR 5205 CNRS, LIRIS 7 av J. Capelle, F 69100 Villeurbanne, France Email:
[email protected] Abstract. Social networks have known an important development since the appearance of web 2.0 platforms. This leads to a growing need for social network mining and social network analysis (SNA) methods and tools in order to provide deeper analysis of the network but also to detect communities in view of various applications.