Andrej Mrvar (in cooperation with Vladimir Batagelj) developed the program package for large network analysis – Pajek. Pajek is used widely in scientific and nonscientific areas all around the world. Its usage increased significantly after the monograph on Pajek was published in 2005 by Cambridge University Press. In 2009 an expanded version of the monograph was published in Japanese, in 2011 was published the revised version and in 2012 the Chinese translation of the monograph was published. The authors obtained "The William D. Richards, Jr. Software Award" given by the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) for the program package Pajek in 2013. The short explanation emphasizes: "The award recognizes software developers without whom we would not have the tools we need to undertake network analysis. This 2013 award highlights the breakthrough thinking behind Pajek in last 17 years. Pajek allowed us to visualize and explore large complex data and was the first software for networks with this design principle in mind." All the documentation can be retrieved from the web page: http://mrvar.fdv.uni-lj.si/pajek/
F.23 Development of new system-wide, normative and programme solutions, and methods
COBISS.SI-ID: 33959005Franc Mali is a member of the editioral board of the leading scientific journal for social studies of science and technology (official journal of EASST) 'Science & technology studies'. http://www.sciencetechnologystudies.org/boar
C.06 Editorial board membership
Social Networks is an interdisciplinary and international quarterly. It provides a common forum for representatives of anthropology, sociology, history, social psychology, political science, human geography, biology, economics, communications science and other disciplines who share an interest in the study of the empirical structure of social relations and associations that may be expressed in network form. It publishes both theoretical and substantive papers. Critical reviews of major theoretical or methodological approaches using the notion of networks in the analysis of social behaviour are also included, as are reviews of recent books dealing with social networks and social structure.
C.06 Editorial board membership
Franc Mali organized and chaired the section of sociology of science at the Meeting on the 50th Anniversary of the Slovene Sociological Association »Sociology between producing knowledge and shaping society«. in Ljubljana, 6-7 November 2015. At the section »Social responsible progress of science and technology« participated sociologists from Slovenia and from United Kindgom, Austria and Sweden. The discussed topics were the role of networks on innovation activity, the strategy of responsable research and innovation, the role of ethics in new genomic science, and the risk in the progress of the information and communication technologies.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
Anuška Ferligoj organized the first meeting of the COST Action project COSTNET (statistical network analysis) in Ribno in September, 21 - 23, 2016. At the meeting 71 researchers in the field of statistical network analysis from most of the European countries participated. At the meeting 28 talks were given.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting