Jérôme Kunegis (NaXys)

Title: The New KONECT Project at the University of Namur

Abstract: In this talk I give an overview of the KONECT project, and highlight some of its applications. The KONECT Project is a project to collect, analyse and disseminate network datasets as used in various fields of research such as network science, web science, etc. The name “KONECT” stands for “Koblenz Network Collection” as the project was  initiated at the University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany), but is now maintained at the University of Namur in parallel with my move to this university. This talk will give a motivation for the need of such a project, highlighting the benefits of performing research on large sets of network datasets, and why the motto of KONECT is “Everything is a Network”. I will also briefly present recent papers by myself and colleagues that have made use of the KONECT corpus. Finally, I will give a brief introduction to the Stu build automation tool that I wrote in order to manage the highly parallel and structurally complex computations in KONECT.