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====== Pajek - Program for Large Network Analysis ======

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Pajek (Slovene word for Spider) is a program, for Windows,
for analysis and visualization of large networks.  It is freely
available, for noncommercial use, at its 
[[download|download]] page.
See also a [[http://mrvar.fdv.uni-lj.si/pajek/pajekman.pdf|reference manual]]
for Pajek (in PDF). The development of Pajek is traced in its 
[[history|History]]. See also an [[histback|overview]] of Pajek's background and development.

Pajek is developed by [[https://www.fmf.uni-lj.si/si/imenik/2909/|Vladimir Batagelj]] and [[http://mrvar.fdv.uni-lj.si/|Andrej Mrvar]].
Some procedures were contributed also by [[https://www.fmf.uni-lj.si/si/imenik/3544/|Matjaž Zaveršnik]].

An improved version of the paper Batagelj V., Mrvar A.: //Pajek - Program for Large Network Analysis//, presented at Sunbelt'97, was published in
{{pajek:slides:Pajek98.pdf|Connections}} 21(1998)2, 47-57 - ({{pajek:slides:pajek97.pdf|preprint}} [[http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/doc/prison.kin|Prison Kinemage]]).

For a short description see:
  * Batagelj V., Mrvar A.: [[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-18638-7_4|Pajek - Analysis and Visualization of Large Networks]]. in Jünger, M.,  Mutzel, P., (Eds.) Graph Drawing Software. Springer, Berlin 2004.  p. 77-103.
  * Mrvar A., Batagelj V.: [[https://casmodeling.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40294-016-0017-8|Analysis and visualization of large networks with program package Pajek]]. Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling (2016) 4:6; [[https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s40294-016-0017-8.pdf|PDF]]
  * Batagelj V., Mrvar A.: [[http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_310-1|Pajek and PajekXXL]].  R. Alhajj, J. Rokne (eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, Springer 2018.

A detailed introduction to Pajek is given in the book
W. de Nooy, A. Mrvar, V. Batagelj:
//[[http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/sociology/organisational-sociology/exploratory-social-network-analysis-pajek?format=PB|Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek]]//, CUP, 2005. [[http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/book/appendix4.pdf|Appendix 4]].   [[http://www.tdupress.jp/books/isbn978-4-501-54710-3.html|ESNA in Japanese]] (trans. Yuki Yasuda), 2010. [[http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/sociology/research-methods-sociology-and-criminology/exploratory-social-network-analysis-pajek-2nd-edition|Second edition]], 2011.  [[http://www.amazon.com/Exploratory-Network-Analysis-Structural-Sciences/dp/7510052882|ESNA2 in Chinese]] (trans. Feng Lin), 2012; [[http://product.dangdang.com/22927985.html|Second Chinese edition]] (trans. Feng Lin), 2014; [[https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/exploratory-social-network-analysis-with-pajek/6F8EE2512CB7C6D233DB2DAC3886D4F5|Revised and Expanded Third Edition for Updated Software]], 2018.

Different applications of Pajek in analysis of large networks are presented in the book Batagelj V., Doreian P., Ferligoj A.,  Kejžar N.: [[http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470714522.html|Understanding Large Temporal Networks and Spatial Networks: Exploration, Pattern Searching, Visualization and Network Evolution]]. Wiley Series in Computational and Quantitative Social Science. Wiley, 2014.

Pajek supports also generalized blockmodeling as described in the book Doreian P., Batagelj V., Ferligoj A.: [[http://www.cambridge.org/de/academic/subjects/sociology/sociology-general-interest/generalized-blockmodeling|Generalized Blockmodeling]]. Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences. Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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