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Centre for Methodology and Informatics

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News

1st doctoral conference: New perspectives in the humanities and social sciences

From January 26 to 27, 2023, the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Arts held the 1st Doctoral Conference of the Interdisciplinary Study Program Humanities and Social Sciences of the UL, titled New Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences. The conference was co-organized by CMI member, asst. Kristina Rakinić, who also presented her contribution at the conference.

30. January 2023 | News

A new publication by the members of CMI in a recognized international journal

Members of the Centre for Methodology and Informatics, doc. dr. Marjan Cugmas and prof. dr. Aleš Žiberna published a scientific article entitled “Approaches to blockmodeling dynamic networks: A Monte Carlo simulation study” in the prestigious international journal Social Networks.

5. January 2023 | News

The first Wiley International Encyclopedia of Health Communication

Wiley Blackwell and the International Communication Association recently published the first International Encyclopedia of Health Communication in the Wiley Blackwell-ICA International Encyclopedias of Communication series. The Encyclopedia also published an entry/chapter titled Empowerment, authored by member of Centre for Methodology and Informatics Assistant Professor Sara Atanasova, PhD, and Isabell Koinig, PhD (University of Klagenfurt).

14. December 2022 | News

Participation in the ECREA conference in Denmark

The 9th European Communication Conference ECREA was held in Aarhus, Denmark, from October 19-22, 2022. The conference was also attended by CMI member Dr. Sara Atanasova, who participated with two papers.

9. November 2022 | News

About the centre

Centre for Methodology and Informatics (CMI) was establsihed in 1992 and integrates research fields of social science methodology and social informatics. The main research topics CMI investigates are:

  • Methods for network analysis,
  • Measuring social networks,
  • Developing the methods of blockmodeling,
  • Mathematical models in social sciences,
  • Measuring information society phenomena,
  • Online community research,
  • Developing the methods for Internet social technology research,
  • Developing and using online qualitative methods and
  • Research of children on the Internet.

CMI is internationally renowned for its scientific achievements in the field of developing methods and tools for network analysis. CMI intensively collaborates with numerus national and international institutions and actively applies and collaborates on international projects.

E-mail: cmi@fdv.uni-lj.si

National research projects

Mentorski odnos v kontekstu znanstvenega sodelovanja in produkcije znanja

Head: doc.dr. Luka Kronegger | Period: 1. October 2021 - 30. September 2024

Mlada raziskovalka Kristina Rakinić

asist. Kristina Rakinić | 1. October 2021 - 30. September 2025

Primerjava in evalvacija pristopov za bločno modeliranje časovnih omrežij s simulacijami in uporaba na slovenskih so-avtorskih omrežjih

Head: prof.dr. Aleš Žiberna | Period: 1. September 2020 - 31. August 2023

Priložnosti in nevarnosti spletnih zdravstvenih skupnosti za zdravstvo

Head: prof.dr. Gregor Petrič | Period: 1. July 2018 - 30. June 2021

Mlada raziskovalka Špela Orehek

asist. Špela Orehek | 1. October 2017 - 30. September 2021

Bločno modeliranje večnivojskih in časovnih omrežij

Head: prof.dr. Aleš Žiberna | Period: 1. May 2017 - 30. April 2020

International research projects

EU Coordination and Support Action (CSA) "Children Online: Research and Evidence (CO:RE), funded by the European Commision under Grant Agreement

izr.prof.dr. Bojana Lobe | 1. February 2021 - 31. December 2021

EU/H2020: STOP - Science and Technology in childhood Obesity Policy

doc.dr. Luka Kronegger | 1. June 2018 - 31. May 2022

EU/COST-CA15109: COSTNET - European Cooperation for Statistics of Network Data Science

zasl.prof.dr. Anuška Ferligoj | 1. March 2016 - 31. March 2020

EU/COST- IC1410: DigiLitEY - The digital literacy and multimodal practices of young children

izr.prof.dr. Bojana Lobe | 1. April 2015 - 30. April 2019

EU/COST-IC1408: CRoNoS - Computationally-intensive methods for the robust analysis of non-standard data

zasl.prof.dr. Anuška Ferligoj | 1. March 2015 - 31. March 2019

EU/COST-TD1306: PEERE -New Frontiers of Peer Review

zasl.prof.dr. Anuška Ferligoj | 1. May 2014 - 31. May 2018

Recent publications

DOLŽAN, David, KOKOL-BUKOVŠEK, Damjana, OMLADIČ, Matjaž, ŠKULJ, Damjan. 2022 Some multivariate imprecise shock model copulas. Fuzzy sets and systems: international journal of soft computing and intelligence, vol. 428, str. 34-57. Doi: 10.1016/j.fss.2021.01.008. [COBISS.SI-ID 49227011]

VUGA BERŠNAK, Janja, HUMER, Živa, LOBE, Bojana. 2021 Characteristics of pandemic work-life balance in Slovenian military families during the lockdown: who has paid the highest price? Current sociology, str. 1-21. Doi: 10.1177/00113921211048519. [COBISS.SI-ID 79792131]

OREHEK, Špela, PETRIČ, Gregor. 2021 A systematic review of scales for measuring information security culture. Information and computer security, vol. 29, no. 1, str. 133-158. Doi: 10.1108/ICS-12-2019-0140. [COBISS.SI-ID 45116931]

RIHOUX, Benoît, ÁLAMOS-CONCHA, Priscilla, LOBE, Bojana. 2021 Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA): an integrative approach suited for diverse mixed methods and multimethod research strategies. V: ONWUEGBUZIE, Anthony J. (ur.), JOHNSON, Burke (ur.). The Routledge reviewer's guide to mixed methods analysis. New York; Abingdon: Routledge. 2021, str. 185-197. Doi: 10.4324/9780203729434-17. [COBISS.SI-ID 80306691]

BERNIK, Ivan, KOGOVŠEK, Tina, KUHAR, Roman, ŠVAB, Alenka. 2018. Intimni življenjski stili študentov in študentk v Sloveniji, (Knjižna zbirka Ost, 16). Ljubljana: Fakulteta za družbene vede, Založba FDV. [COBISS.SI-ID 294473472]

Sicris bibliography of CMI members >>

Highlighted publications

Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (3rd Edition)

Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek: Revised and Expanded Edition for Updated Software by Wouter de Nooy (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Andrej Mrvar (University of Ljubljana) and Vladimir Batagelj (University of Ljubljana) is one of the most prominent works dealing with the understanding of social network analysis.

9. October 2016 | Highlighted publications

Understanding Large Temporal Networks and Spatial Networks: Exploration, Pattern Searching, Visualization and Network Evolution

Understanding Large Temporal Networks and Spatial Networks: Exploration, Pattern Searching, Visualization and Network Evolution was published in a series of books on Computational and Quantitative Social Science with Wiley.

11. March 2016 | Highlighted publications

Pajek – software for analysis and visualisation of large networks

Developed in 1996 by Vladimir Batagelj and Andrej Mrvar, Pajek has become an internationally renowned and awarded software enabling analysis and visualisation of large networks.

11. March 2016 | Highlighted publications