CINET 2.0: A CyberInfrastructure for Network Science

Abstract

Abstract-Analysis of structural properties and dynamics of networks is currently a central topic in many disciplines including Social Sciences, Biology and Business. CINET, a cyberinfrastructure for such studies, introduced the concept of supporting network analysis as a service. The basic idea is to allow experts in various disciplines to focus on obtaining domain-specific insights from the results of network analyses instead of worrying about programming details and allocation of computational resources needed to carry out the analyses. A basic version of CINET was released in May 2012. This paper discusses CINET 2.0, a significantly enhanced version that supports complex network analyses through a web portal. CINET 2.0 has already been used for teaching courses related to Network Science at several US universities. In this paper, we discuss how CINET 2.0 significantly extends CINET 1.0 through enhancements to some components and the addition of new components.

Current and Future Challenges in Mining Large Networks

“…Maleq Khan gave a demonstration of an open-access web-based network analysis tool called CINET [1,15], a Cyber Infrastructure for NETwork Science 2 . CINET has been developed at Virginia Tech and partially funded by NSF.…”