Unobtrusive Social Network Data From Email

Abstract

Email provides a rich source of longitudinal social network data that can be used for applications ranging from command and control, to military intelligence, to basic social science research. This project reviews several methods available to extract email network data and compares them in terms of data quality and convenience of collection. In general, it is preferable to obtain email data directly from the central SMTP email server. In situations where this is not possible, alternative approaches presented here can be useful. These techniques for analyzing email data have been automated in the Organizational Risk Analyzer (ORA) software, which is freely available to DoD and academia.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA505804

Entities

People

  • Benjamin Ring
  • Ian Mcculloh
  • Kathleen Carley
  • Terrill L. Frantz

Organizations

  • United States Military Academy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Protocols
  • Basic Programming Language
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Computers
  • Electronic Mail
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Institutional Review Board
  • Mobile Phones
  • Network Science
  • Online Communications
  • Personal Computers
  • Social Networks
  • Social Sciences
  • Spreadsheet Software
  • United States Military Academy

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Clinical Trial Research.
  • Organizational Psychology.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control