Introduction to Corporate Leaders Analytics and Network System (CLANS) in China and Its Data Management Mechanism

Social network plays a vital role in Chinese business and is highly valued by business people. However, social network analysis is difficult due to issues in data collection, natural language processing, network detection and construction, data management and mining. Thus, we develop the Corporate Leaders Analytics and Network System (CLANS) to tackle some of these problems. One of the important topics as well as the focus in this paper is Data Management. Data Management is essential in both research and industrial areas, especially for the fields that need text processing, like business domain. Therefore, to achieve appropriate data management in CLANS, we propose a novel approach by integrating the essential XML files and auxiliary databases, with a flexible and extensible data schema. This data schema is the kernel of our data management. It achieves plenty of superiorities, namely, separability, scalability, traceability, distinguishability, version control and maintainability. In brief, we give an overall introduction of CLANS and specifically illustrate its data management mechanism with the data schema in this paper.