Paper presented at KES International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing, 28-30 April 2014.[EN] This paper presents an extract of a more extensive review of the literature on immersive social networking systems and social network analysis (SNA). The paper overviews the current literature on relevant knowledge networking models. There is a special interest in SNA applications in knowledge management. The result of this paper is a report describing the main findings of some knowledge networking models and SNA.Funding provided by the EU Marie Curie Actions—Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP) Project entitled “KNOWNET— Engaging in Knowledge Networking via an interactive 3D Social Supplier Network (FP7-PEOPLE-2012- IAPP)” is gratefully acknowledged. The KNOWNET project seeks to assess the value of social networking for knowledge exchange across Insurance supply chains. A key objective of the project being to develop and build a web based interactive environment - a Supplier Social Network or SSN, to support and
facilitate exchange of good ideas, insights, knowledge, innovations etc across a diverse group of suppliers within a multi level supply chain within the Insurance sector (Grant, 2014).Mula, J.; Capó-Vicedo, J.; Capó I Vicedo, J.; Grant, S. (2016). An overview of social network analysis and knowledge networks. InImpact. 7(2):1099-1105. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/77534S109911057
