Vladimir Batagelj

Vladimir Batagelj is a Slovenian mathematician, born 1948 in Idrija, Slovenia, who works mainly in data analysis, discrete mathematics, combinatorial optimization and applications of IT in education.

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

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 [1].
• 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) 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 [2]. in R.A. Meyers, ed., Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Springer 2009: 8245-8265.
• Vladimir Batagelj, Complex Networks, Visualization of [3]. in R.A. Meyers, ed., Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Springer 2009: 1253-1268.
• Wouter de Nooy, Andrej Mrvar, Vladimir Batagelj, Mark Granovetter (Series Editor), Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences), Cambridge University Press 2005 (ISBN 0-521-60262-9). ESNA in Japanese, TDU, 2010.
• Patrick Doreian, Vladimir Batagelj, Anuška Ferligoj, 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

External links

Vladimir Batagelj at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.