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SOCIO > NETWORK THEORY...

    Our world is getting more and more interconnected as a result of technologies, such as the Internet, cell phones and text messaging. Network science is the disciplined study of these and many other types of interconnections. Network scientists establish the methodologies appropriate to various domains and use them to gain new knowledge of how these networks behave and proliferate.
    Dr. Frederick Moxley, Defense Information Systems Agency Fellow and Visiting Professor at the U.S. Military Academy (USMA), Understanding Network Science, Paul Serluco, Homeland Defense Journal, published by Zangani (10.30.2007)
This page presents a selection of videos and papers from the explosion in research and applications developed over the past few years in network theory and network science. Mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, sociologists and biologists have been exploring what networks can tell us. While each may use different descriptive terminology, networks are generally described in terms of structure (nodes and pathways) and dynamics (the exchanges and interactions that take place in one or both directions along pathways). In some instances, structures themselves may be dynamic. The following text is excerpted from the book Network Science, authored by the Committee on Network Science for Future Army Applications, National Research Council (2005). This 124-page book may be read online, free of charge. After the table showing different examples of networks and their global impact, a five-part documentary video entitled Connected — The Power of Six Degrees provides an overview of work by several key scientists in the field.
[...] When diseases are transmitted by person-to-person contact, their spread patterns and ultimate effect are highly dependent on connections that can be described as a network. When cells divide and transform under the influence of minute amounts of biochemical elements in the body, they trigger a network of influences and dependent reactions. Human organizations are networks, often captured graphically with organization charts. In our daily lives we encounter health-care provider networks, purchase goods from companies that acquired them from supply networks, and pay for them using networks of banks and credit card companies. Our brains are immense networks of highly interconnected nerve cells, responsible for our ability to see and hear, make decisions, remember and learn, and act.

In order to get a sense of the scope and character of these networks, the committee classified them into biological (e.g., metabolic pathways), physical (e.g., the power grid and telephone system), and social (e.g., governments and churches). This taxonomy is developed in Table 2-1 [see below], which identifies some important physical, social, and biological networks and gives an indication of their global impact. This table illustrates clearly the utter pervasiveness of networks in every aspect not only of human existence but also of the existence of all living entities on planet Earth. Connectivity is an essential ingredient of life as we know it. [...]

[...N]etworks underlie nearly every aspect of the infrastructure that supports daily life. Electricity, water, transportation, telephone service, Internet connection, health care, banking, shopping, education, and government all are brought to us by physical or social networks.

Our bodies and minds are also manifestations of networks. The natural world in which we live is a vast array of ecological networks. Networks are ubiquitous in daily life. They also are central to the global economic infrastructure. The failure of any of these networks impacts society.
 2005:p.11
Ch.2: "Networks and Network Research in the 21st Century"
Finding 2-1: "Networks enable the necessities and conveniences of modern life".

Connected — The Power of Six Degrees

This five-part documentary introduces the pioneering work of Steve Strogatz, Duncan J. Watts, Albert-László Barabási and Marc Vidal. It presents an overview of network theory and network science, defined by the National Research Council as the organized knowledge of networks based on their study using the scientific method, consisting of the study of network representations of physical, biological, and social phenomena leading to predictive models of these phenomena.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

Center for Complex Network Research

barabásilab.com - CCNR
Our research, directed by Professor Albert-László Barabási, has a simple objective: think networks. It is about how networks emerge, what they look like, and how they evolve; and how networks impact on understanding of complex systems.


The following list is a selected sample of what's available on the CCNR site. There are many additional papers in the sections shown below, and in other categories including Biological Networks, Complex Networks, Internet WWW, Computer Networks, Human Dynamics, Biophysics, Statistical Mechanics, Physics, and more.
Network Medicine
Econophysics
Social Networks
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