Vladimir Batagelj is a Slovenian

Slovenians

The Slovenes, Slovene people, Slovenians, or Slovenian people are a South Slavic people primarily associated with Slovenia and the Slovene language.-Population:Most Slovenes today live within the borders of the independent Slovenia...

 mathematician

Mathematician

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, born 1948 in Idrija

Idrija

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, Slovenia

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, who works mainly in data analysis

Data analysis

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, discrete mathematics

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, combinatorial optimization

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 and applications of IT in education.

He is Professor of Discrete and Computational Mathematics at the University of Ljubljana

University of Ljubljana

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With Andrej Mrvar he is developing, since 1996, Pajek, a software for analysis and visualization of large networks which was started as a project to support Andrej's work on his PhD thesis.

Awards

• first prizes for contributions (with Andrej Mrvar) to Graph Drawing Contests in years: 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2005 / Graph Drawing Hall of Fame http://www.graphdrawing.de/contestwinners.html.
• in 2007 the book 'Generalized blockmodeling' was awarded the Harrison White Outstanding Book Award by the Mathematical Sociology Section of American Sociological Association awards.pdf.
• in 2007 he was awarded (together with Anuška Ferligoj
  Anuška Ferligoj
  Anuška Ferligoj is a Slovenian mathematician, born 1947 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, whose work in network analysis research is internationally recognized. Her interests include multivariate analysis , social networks , and survey methodology...
  
  ) the Simmel Award by INSNA - International Network for Social Network Analysis International Network for Social Network Analysis#List of Annual .22Sunbelt.22 Meetings .2F Keynote Speakers.

Selected bibliography

• Vladimir Batagelj, Social Network Analysis, Large-Scale http://www.springerlink.com/content/tp3w7237m4624462/. in R.A. Meyers, ed., Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Springer 2009: 8245-8265.
• Vladimir Batagelj, Complex Networks, Visualization of http://www.springerlink.com/content/m472707688618h17/. in R.A. Meyers, ed., Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Springer 2009: 1253-1268.
• Wouter de Nooy, Andrej Mrvar, Vladimir Batagelj, Mark Granovetter
  Mark Granovetter
  Professor Mark Granovetter is an American sociologist at Stanford University who has created theories in modern sociology since the 1970s. He is best known for his work in social network theory and in economic sociology, particularly his theory on the spread of information in social networks known...
  
   (Series Editor), Exploratory Social Network
  Social network
  A social network is a social structure made up of individuals called "nodes", which are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige.Social...
  
   Analysis with Pajek (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences), Cambridge University Press
  Cambridge University Press
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   2005 (ISBN 0-521-60262-9). ESNA in Japanese, TDU, 2010.
• Patrick Doreian, Vladimir Batagelj, Anuška Ferligoj
  Anuška Ferligoj
  Anuška Ferligoj is a Slovenian mathematician, born 1947 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, whose work in network analysis research is internationally recognized. Her interests include multivariate analysis , social networks , and survey methodology...
  
  , Mark Granovetter (Series Editor), Generalized Blockmodeling (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences), Cambridge University Press 2004 (ISBN 0-521-84085-6)
• ResearcherId: B-9105-2008

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