Modeling of Scientific Cooperation Networks in professional and technological education.
Scientific Modeling. Scientific Collaboration. Social Networks. Graphs. Knowledge Diffusion.
Scientific cooperation is important for expanding operational capacity and optimizing the use of resources, improving the analytical capacity of research projects and recognizing researchers in their field. A Social Network Analysis - SNA approach An approach has a striking characteristic, which is the change of focus of individuals to analyze the relationship between them, moving the object of analysis from the individual element to the structure, with bibliographic production as a source for evaluating the relationships, building strategies and analyzing the social behavior based on co-authorship in scientific documents. In this thesis, a scientific model of knowledge discovery and representation in the domain of Professional and Technological Education has been developed and a conceptual/operational framework has been constructed and registered in INPI (under the title: “ETCAP – Extraction, Treatment, Load, Analysis and Publication”), from the scientific modeling of scientific colaborational networks, materialized in a computational solution with a friendly access and hipermodal contextualized visualization, in which the interactivity and the augmented reality allow to know the dynamics and evolution of the social network, the main knowledge agents, giving new meaning to the experience of consulting information, democratizing access to knowledge, which was validated by a case study in the domain of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Sergipe. Through this model, it was possible to analyze and study the cooperation network considered, as well as to understand how the scientific production and cooperation are related in the domain of the professional and technological education.