Vladimir Batagelj (born June 14, 1948 in

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) is a

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and an emeritus professor of mathematics at the

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. He is known for his work in discrete mathematics and

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, particularly

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of social networks and other large networks (

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Education and career

Vladimir Batagelj completed his Ph.D. at the

in 1986 under the direction of

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. He stayed at the University of Ljubljana as a professor until his retirement, where he was a professor of sociology and statistics, while also being a chair of the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Social Sciences. As visiting professor, he was taught at the

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(1990-91) and at the

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(2002). He was also a member of editorial boards of two journals: ''

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'' and '' Journal of Social Structure''. His work has been cited over 11000 times. His book ''Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek'' on

, coauthored with Wouter de Nooy and Andrej Mrvar, is Batagelj's most cited work and has over 3300 citations. The book was translated into Chinese and Japanese. The revised and expanded third edition has been published by Cambridge University Press. He is particularly known for his work on ''Pajek'', a freely available software for

and

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of large networks. Batagelj began work on Pajek in 1996 with Andrej Mrvar, who was then his PhD student. In 1975, 11 years before completing his PhD, Batagelj published a solo paper in Communications of the ACM. Batagelj authored more than 20 textbooks in Slovenian, covering topics like

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, combinatorics and discrete mathematics. He has also written extensively in the Slovenian popular science journal ''Presek''. Batagelj has advised 9 Ph.D. students.

Awards and honors

* 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. * In 2007 the book ''Generalized blockmodeling'' was awarded the Harrison White Outstanding Book Award by the Mathematical Sociology Section of American Sociological Association * In 2007 he was awarded (together with

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) the Simmel Award by

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. * In 2013, Vladimir Batagelj and Andrej Mrvar received the INSNA's William D. Richards Software award for their work on Pajek.

Selected bibliography

* Vladimir Batagelj, ''Social Network Analysis, Large-Scale'

in R.A. Meyers, ed., Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Springer 2009: 8245–8265. * Vladimir Batagelj, ''Complex Networks, Visualization of'

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 Sanford Granovetter (; born October 20, 1943) is an American sociologist and professor at Stanford University. He is best known for his work in social network theory and in economic sociology, particularly his theory on the spread of info ...

(Series Editor), ''Exploratory

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Analysis with Pajek'' (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences),

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2005 (). ESNA in Japanese,
TDU
2010. *

Patrick Doreian Patrick Doreian is an American mathematician and social scientist, whose specialty is network analysis. His specific research interests include blockmodeling, social structure and network processes. Doreian, Professor Emeritus from the Universi ...

, Vladimir Batagelj,

, Mark Granovetter (Series Editor), ''Generalized Blockmodeling'' (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences), Cambridge University Press 2004 ()

References

External links

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