Centre for Methodology and Informatics

Centre for Methodology and Informatics

News

Guest lectures of professor Benoit Rihoux from University of Louvain, Belgium

During January the 6th and January the 10th, the Department for Social Informatics and Methodology will be hosting professor Benoit Rihoux from University of Louvain, Belgium, as a part of Erasmus plus exchange for professors.

16. December 2019 | News

Invitation to the traditional meeting of researchers from the field of network analysis - the NetSlo 20

The meeting will take place at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science (Večna pot 113, 1000 Ljubljana), University of Ljubljana on 23th of January 2020 with the start at 1.30 PM. The program will include invited lectures from the field of network analyses and the students’ posters.

16. December 2019 | News

First European conference and scientific journal in the field of health communication

The first European Conference on Health Communication (https://echc.ch/) was held in Zurich from 13 to 15 November 2019.

20. November 2019 | News

Presentation of the research results of high school students’ sexual behavior in Slovenia

Dr Tina Kogovšek, Dr Alenka Švab and Dr Roman Kuhar have on November 12 2019 presented the results of the research project on high school students’ sexual behavior in Slovenia at Gymnasium Vič in Ljubljana.

20. November 2019 | 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

Opportunities and dangers of online health communities for healthcare

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

Mlada raziskovalka Špela Orehek

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

Blockmodeling multilevel and temporal networks

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

International research projects

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

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

Recent publications

STRES, Blaž, KRONEGGER, Luka. 2019. Shift in the paradigm towards next-generation microbiology. FEMS microbiology letters, no. 17. [COBISS.SI-ID 4269704]

GEORGIOU, Ion, HECK, Joaquim, MRVAR, Andrej. 2019. The analysis of interconnected decision areas: a computational approach to finding all feasible solutions. Group decision and negotiation, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 543-563. [COBISS.SI-ID 36146781]

DOREIAN, Patrick, MRVAR, Andrej. 2019. Signed networks for the US Supreme Court overturning its prior decisions. Connections, vol. 39, iss. 1, pp. 1-14. [COBISS.SI-ID 36128349]

VRTAČIČ, Eva. 2019. Ethics of touch: Doctor Who's untouchable touch. V: KOMEL, Mirt (ur.). The language of touch: philosophical examinations in linguistics and haptic studies. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 153-171. [COBISS.SI-ID 36004957]

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 (until December 16, 2019) >>

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

Members

Head:
Gregor Petrič