Quantifying Social Network Dynamics

The dynamic character of most social networks requires to model evolution of networks in order to enable complex analysis of theirs dynamics. The following paper focuses on the definition of differences between network snapshots by means of Graph Differential Tuple. These differences enable to calculate the diverse distance measures as well as to investigate the speed of changes. Four separate measures are suggested in the paper with experimental study on real social network data.Comment: In proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks, CASoN 201

Principled Multilayer Network Embedding

Multilayer network analysis has become a vital tool for understanding different relationships and their interactions in a complex system, where each layer in a multilayer network depicts the topological structure of a group of nodes corresponding to a particular relationship. The interactions among different layers imply how the interplay of different relations on the topology of each layer. For a single-layer network, network embedding methods have been proposed to project the nodes in a network into a continuous vector space with a relatively small number of dimensions, where the space embeds the social representations among nodes. These algorithms have been proved to have a better performance on a variety of regular graph analysis tasks, such as link prediction, or multi-label classification. In this paper, by extending a standard graph mining into multilayer network, we have proposed three methods ("network aggregation," "results aggregation" and "layer co-analysis") to project a multilayer network into a continuous vector space. From the evaluation, we have proved that comparing with regular link prediction methods, "layer co-analysis" achieved the best performance on most of the datasets, while "network aggregation" and "results aggregation" also have better performance than regular link prediction methods

Optimisation of Mobile Communication Networks - OMCO NET

The mini conference “Optimisation of Mobile Communication Networks” focuses on advanced methods for search and optimisation applied to wireless communication networks. It is sponsored by Research & Enterprise Fund Southampton Solent University. The conference strives to widen knowledge on advanced search methods capable of optimisation of wireless communications networks. The aim is to provide a forum for exchange of recent knowledge, new ideas and trends in this progressive and challenging area. The conference will popularise new successful approaches on resolving hard tasks such as minimisation of transmit power, cooperative and optimal routing

Innovations in spatial planning as a social process – phases, actors, conflicts

The aim of this paper is to understand the social process of the emergence and institutionalization of innovations in spatial planning (which we describe as ‘social innovations’). The paper is based on a recently finished empirical and comparative study conducted in four distinct areas of spatial planning in Germany: urban design, neighbourhood development, urban regeneration and regional planning. The empirical cases selected in these areas encompass different topics, historical periods, degrees of maturity and spatial scales of innovation. As a temporal structure of the innovation processes in the different cases we identified five phases: ‘incubating, generating, formatting, stabilizing, adjusting’. In a cross-comparison of the case studies and along these phases, we furthermore found typical (groups of) actors, tensions and conflicts. In the focus of our case analyses are the following dimensions: (1) the content of the innovations, (2) actors, networks and communities involved as well as (3) institutions and institutionalization

Geo-Design:

Geo-Design. Advances in bridging geo-information technology and design brings together a wide variety of contributions from authors with backgrounds in urban planning, landscape architecture, education and geo-information technology presenting the latest insights and applications of geodesign. Geo-Design is here understood as a hybridization of the concepts “Geo” – representing the modelling, analytical and visualisation capacities of GIS, and “Design” – representing spatial planning and design, turning existing situations into preferred ones. Through focusing on interdisciplinary design-related concepts and applications of GIS international experts share their recent findings and provide clues for the further development of geodesign. This is important since there is still much to do. Not only in the development of geo-information technology, but especially in bridging the gap with the design disciplines. The uptake on using GIS is still remarkably slow among landscape architects, urban designers and planners, and when utilised it is often restricted to the basic tasks of mapmaking and data access. Knowledge development and dissemination of applications of geodesign through research, publications and education, therefore, remain key factors. This publication draws upon the insights shared at the Geodesign Summit Europe held at the Delft University of Technology in 2014. All contributions in the book are double blind reviewed by experts in the field

Dislocations. [Exhibition]

This exhibition is an online video art show selected for the summer school of the Scottish Graduate School for the Arts and Humanities. It features work by Elena Chemerska, Ivana Mirchevska, Ahmet Ögut, Mila Panić, Stella Rooney, Olia Sosnovskaya and Alesia Zhitkevich. The videos selected for this exhibition reflect upon the individual and societal experiences of ruptures in the socially liberal, late modern consensus of Europe - both within and beyond the EU. It presents a range of artists at different stages in their development, and covers the chronological period from the financial crash (2008) to the present era of complex, interlinked anti-government protest (2021)

Intermediary-led Participation in Regeneration: Governing and Networking Communities in Post- Developmental Urbanism - A Study of Seoul

This thesis investigates the dynamics of community participation led by intermediary organisations in the urban regeneration of South Korea. Since the 2010s, the Korean government has tried to institutionalise community participation in its planning system by devising new partnerships between the state, citizens, and intermediary organisations. Intermediary organisations act as brokers to promote community participation throughout the regeneration process. Such intermediary intervention is a distinctive part of the recent planning system, which forms the basis for alternative approaches to past state-led or market-driven urban development in Korea. Despite its importance, the dynamics behind intermediary intervention have rarely been addressed. In particular, little attention has been paid to power relationships and social networks that are constructed through intermediary intervention, which can provide an additional insight into the fundamental nature of community participation in Korea’s planning system. Using research data collected mainly from fieldwork in Korea, this study explores the dynamics of community participation, with a focus on the governance arrangements and network structures that have evolved through intermediary intervention. This thesis argues that intermediary intervention remains largely under state control, which restricts the financial resources and legal rights of intermediaries. While intermediary intervention has been managed by professional firms, its transformative potential for community empowerment has been undermined due to new rules and norms armed with expertise and professionalism, which were preferred by the state. On the other hand, more autonomous intermediary intervention has contributed to community empowerment but gained less institutional support, and this has enabled the state to maintain control over community participation, albeit in indirect ways. This thesis concludes that new challenges facing community participation emerging from intermediary intervention can be understood as a developmental legacy of the interventionist state in the post-developmental context in Korea. At the same time, it highlights that intermediary intervention can serve as a long-term platform to address such new challenges by constantly attempting to communicate with the citizens and negotiate with the state throughout the regeneration process. Investigating the dynamics of community participation also provides an opportunity to expand the empirical basis for a wider discourse on post-developmental urbanism in Korea and East Asia