Clique is a Science Foundation Ireland funded (SFI) Strategic Research Cluster focused on graph and network analysis and visualisation. Our industry partners, in this joint initiative are IBM, Idiro Technologies and Norkom Technologies. Our academic partners are UCD and DERI at NUI Galway along with collaborating academics around the world.

Research in data analysis is being transformed by access to large-scale data resources. An area of particular importance in data analysis is the study of collections of entities and the links between them i.e. networks. Clique addresses the development of computational techniques for the analysis and visualisation of such network data.

Clique research is driven by the requirements of network analysis in social networks and biological networks. While these are two quite different application areas, at a data level the problems have similar structure and the practice of applying techniques developed in one area to the other is well established. In particular the transfer of techniques developed for social network analysis to biological networks has had a huge impact in recent years.

Additionally, the Clique research programme is also driven by a set of challenges identified by our industrial partners and by the requirements of network analysis in social networks and biological networks. Our industrial partners provide access to voluminous data and also information about the characteristics of real data.

Come Join Us

In addition to the current industry partners, Clique has been involved in discussions with several Irish-based companies over the past year. This has led to some preliminary research activities that Clique hopes to build into industry partnerships in the long run. 

Clique is always looking for new challenges and is keen to work with other companies (startups, SMEs and multinationals) that have an interest in graph & network analysis and visualization research. In order to attract industry partners, Clique has joined the Irish Software Innovation Network (ISIN) and can also be found on the CORDIS Partners Service.

Please contact prag(dot)sharma(at)ucd(dot)ie to arrange a meeting.

Keywords:

Research Cluster; Graph; Network Analysis; Social Networks; Biological Networks