EU Project: The Social Network Graph

Charonite has recently had another Research & Development project funded by EU ERDF funds, called MAPGRAPH, which aims to study the graph structure of social networks in depth, while creating fast efficient algorithms that aim to answer questions like:

• Who are the most influential people in a graph?
• How can social network information be incorporated in the best way to improve search engine results?
• What improvements can be made to speed up social graph processing?
• Given a particular user, what other users exhibit similar behaviour? (this is technically known as collaborative filtering)
• And many other interesting R&D areas...

The ERDF funding was obtained after undergoing a competitive proposal process administered by Malta Enterprise. The MAPGRAPH project is expected to go on until mid-2012 and a team of expert researchers with backgrounds in IT/CS, maths, and physics has been setup internally to carry out the research work.

Charonite has already had another R&D project funded by EU ERDF funds last year, concerning computer vision and traffic applications. The success of this project, together with our past experience working on FP5, FP6 and FP7 projects, coupled with our initiative to eventually achieve CMMI Level 5 and the use of ITIL/PRINCE2 project management methods is paying off by making our team achieve results in a more consistent and predictable manner.