Ousi is a cross-platform social network analysis software built with web technology. It is written in Java with Vaadin to provide the user interface in your browser. Of course you can run it on your local computer. Or you may run it on a cluster and manipulate it with your tablet. So it's both scalable and portable.

The word "ousi" means the fibers in the root of lotus in Chinese. It is often used as a metaphor of the affection between people. The root of lotus may break apart, whereas the affection keeps. So I'm using this word to remind us of the links between people. I hope SNA researchers will not forget why they initially entered this field. It's the people, not the network or anything else.

Currently, Ousi is not ready for production. However, testing it is quite simple. Make sure you have maven and nodejs installed. Clone this project, and run mvn jetty:run. That's all!

藕丝是一款基于网络技术的跨平台社会网络分析软件，由Java语言与Vaadin框架写就，以此提供一个能够运行于浏览器中的用户界面。当然，你可以在你的电脑上运行藕丝，但你也可以在集群上来运行这款软件，并在你平板电脑的浏览器中来操作它。从这个角度上来讲，藕丝同时具备了可扩展性和可移动性。

“藕丝”，即莲藕中的纤维，常被用来比喻人与人之间的绵绵感情。莲藕折断，藕丝却依旧牵连。这使人想起人与人之间的关系。我希望，社会网络研究者们能够不忘初心。比起社会网络或是其它什么，更重要的，永远是“人”。

目前而言，藕丝还未达到适合发布的阶段。然而，如果你想测试一下，却是再简单不过的了。首先确保你安装了maven和nodejs。克隆这个项目，然后在终端运行mvn jetty:run。这样就好了！