Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Ανάλυση Κατευθυνόμενων Κοινωνικών Δικτύων	Ανίχνευση Κατευθυνόμενων Κοινοτήτων
Πεδίο	Ανάλυση Δικτύων	Ανάλυση Δικτύων
Οικογένεια	Machine learning	Machine learning
Έτος προέλευσης	1994	2008
Δημιουργός	Wasserman, S. & Faust, K.	Leicht, E. A. & Newman, M. E. J.; Rosvall, M. & Bergstrom, C. T.
Τύπος	Structural analysis of directed graphs	Graph partitioning / modularity optimization
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Wasserman, S. & Faust, K. (1994). Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-521-38707-1	Leicht, E. A. & Newman, M. E. J. (2008). Community structure in directed networks. Physical Review Letters, 100(11), 118703.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	directed SNA, digraph analysis, directed graph network analysis, asymmetric network analysis	directed graph clustering, community detection in digraphs, directed modularity optimization, directed network partitioning
Συναφείς	5	6
Σύνοψη	Directed Social Network Analysis (directed SNA) studies networks in which every tie has an explicit direction — from a sender to a receiver — rather than treating relationships as symmetric. It extends the classical SNA toolkit with in-degree, out-degree, reciprocity, and asymmetric path measures, making it the appropriate framework wherever relationship direction carries substantive meaning, such as citation flows, advice-seeking, follower graphs, or information cascades.	Directed community detection identifies densely interconnected groups of nodes in a directed network, accounting for the asymmetry of edges (e.g., A follows B does not imply B follows A). Adapting modularity or flow-based criteria to directed graphs reveals clusters that undirected methods systematically miss, making it essential for citation networks, follower graphs, and biological regulatory pathways.