Social Network of Faculties Accordıng to Student Preferences in Transition to Higher Education

Abstract

Social network analysis has a wide and diversified application area. For this area which showed fast development recently, necessary basic theories and models are being used; however, development of new models and theories also continues. Another field which began to develop in late 1990s and early 2000s is the value of the links between nodes of social networks. In most studies the adjacency matrix for social networks is composed of 0 and 1 values. However, this situation does not completely reflect the systems encountered in real life. For this reason studies conducted on weighted links increases on a daily basis. In addition, although network sciences deals with the characteristics of the links between nodes unlike statistics, one must not neglect the fact that characteristic of the node also has a role in the formation of a link between two nodes. In this paper, emphasis has been put on the fact that due to the structures of some social mechanisms, weights of the used links do not sufficiently reflect the reality. In order to use in this type of social structures, characteristics of nodes were given more place in evaluations and a new weighting method was proposed, which was also shown with an application.