
GRAPHNET: Network Science and Graph Analytics Platform
SHORT SUMMARY
The GRAPHNET Network Science and Graph Analytics Platform provides dedicated computational resources and professional-grade software tools for modeling, analyzing, and visualizing complex networked systems. Built on high-performance multi-core CPU and GPU infrastructure, and equipped with a comprehensive suite of graph analytics libraries and graph database technologies, this testbed enables researchers and industry partners to study the structure, dynamics, and emergent properties of large-scale networks. Application domains include social network analysis, cybersecurity threat detection, biological network modeling, transportation systems, financial fraud detection, and knowledge graph construction. Mathematical graph theory and network science form foundational pillars of modern Artificial Intelligence, underpinning recommendation systems, graph neural networks (GNNs), and relational reasoning pipelines. By bridging classical network analysis with cutting-edge AI workflows, GRAPHNET supports the full analytics lifecycle from data ingestion and graph construction through to community detection, pathfinding, centrality analysis, and machine learning on graphs. This testbed contributes to the CITADELS Framework by providing accessible state-of-the-art graph analytics capabilities relevant to Industry 5.0 challenges such as resilient supply chain mapping, human-centric organizational network analysis, and data-driven infrastructure planning.
HOSTING INSTITUTION AND PI INFO
| Name of Host Organization | NOVA Information Management School (NOVA IMS), Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| Department or Lab | MagIC (Information Management Research Center) – the NOVA Information Management School research and development center |
| Name of Building | Manuel Vilares Building |
| Physical Address | Campus de Campolide, 1070-312 Lisboa |
| Website Links | https://www.novaims.unl.pt/ |
| Institutional contact name | Cristina Oliveira |
| Institutional contact email | magic@novaims.unl.pt |
APPLICATION CASES
| Application case: | Short description: |
| Social Network Analysis and Community Detection | Apply centrality measures, clustering algorithms, and community detection techniques to map influence patterns, identify key actors, and detect echo chambers within large-scale social networks. This can support sociological research, political communication studies, and online misinformation monitoring. |
| Knowledge Graph Construction and Reasoning | Build and query domain-specific knowledge graphs connecting entities such as organizations, people, products, and events. Applications include intelligent search engines, semantic question answering systems, and AI-powered recommendation engines that leverage structured relational knowledge. |
| Financial Fraud Detection | Represent financial transactions as graph networks to identify suspicious patterns, money laundering rings, and fraudulent account clusters. Graph-based AI models can detect complex multi-hop fraud schemes invisible to conventional rule-based detection systems. |
| Transportation and Infrastructure Network Resilience | Analyze road networks, public transport systems, and critical infrastructure as graphs to identify bottlenecks, optimize routing, and assess resilience to disruptions. This supports urban planning, smart city initiatives, and emergency response optimization. |
POTENTIAL STAKEHOLDERS
Non-academic stakeholders
Industrial Partners, Startups, Professional Associations, SMEs, Government Bodies
Academic stakeholders
PhD students, MSc students, Researchers







