Small world research

Author(s)

• Schnettler, Sebastian

Bibliographic Information

Small world research

edited by Sebastian Schnettler

（Sage benchmarks in social research methods series）

SAGE, 2013

• : set of four volumes
• v. 1
• v. 2
• v. 3
• v. 4

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Small-world research started about fifty years ago with an idea about a social phenomenon: that any two randomly chosen individuals in a country, or in the world even, could be connected with each other via a relatively short chain of acquaintances. But since its formation, this idea has evolved and - despite research almost dying off in the 1980s - has now become an exciting and vital area of study. Following the publication of seminal research in the late 1990s, which shed new light on the question of how short connections are possible in large scale networks, researchers began to see the significance of their subject reflected in many different facets of existence; small-world structures were found in a number of distinct contexts, including, for example, a protein interaction network and in communication networks via instant messaging. What had once started as small-world research has now evolved into an interdisciplinary science of complex networks. In this four-volume set, the history, development and potential future of this intriguing idea is mapped and illustrated through a masterfully selected collection of articles, written and introduced by respected authorities on the subject. Volume I: The Small-World Phenomenon: an Introduction Volume II: Network Search Volume III: A complex networks approach to the Small World problem Volume IV: Multidisciplinary applications

Table of Contents

VOLUME ONE: THE SMALL-WORLD PHENOMENON: AN INTRODUCTION The Small-World Problem - Karl Deutsch The Growth of a Research Idea A Structured Overview of 50 Years of Small-World Research - Sebastian Schnettler The Small-World Problem - Judith Kleinfeld The 'New' Science of Networks - Duncan Watts VOLUME TWO: NETWORK RESEARCH PART ONE: PROBING NETWORK STRUCTURE: MILGRAM'S LETTER REFERRAL METHOD The Small-World Problem - Stanley Milgram An Experimental Study of the Small-World Problem - Jeffrey Travers and Stanley Milgram A Review of Small-World Literature - Bernard Russell and Peter Killworth An Experimental Study of Search in Global Social Networks - Peter Sheridan Dodds, Roby Muhamad and Duncan Watts A Small World on Feet of Clay? A Comparison of Empirical Small-World Studies against Best-Practice Criteria - Sebastian Schnettler PART TWO: TARGETED SEARCH: EMPIRICAL EXAMPLES AND ALGORITHM DESIGN Social Networks and Getting a Home - Andrea Roeper, Beate Voelker and Henk Flap Do Contacts Matter? The Strength of Weak Ties - Mark Granovetter How to Search a Social Network - Lada Adamic and Adar Eytan Identity and Search in Social Networks - Duncan Watts, Peter Dodds and M.E.J . Newman Social Networks - Peter Killworth et al The Accuracy of Small-World Chains in Social Networks VOLUME THREE: A COMPLEX NETWORKS APPROACH TO THE SW PROBLEM PART ONE: NETWORK TOPOLOGY: SMALL-WORLD AND SCALE-FREE NETWORKS Collective Dynamics of 'Small-World' Networks - Duncan Watts and Steve Strogatz Scale-Free Networks - Albert-Laszlo Barabasi and Eric Bonabeau Models of the Small World - Mark Newman Classes of Small-World Networks - Luis Amaral et al Why Social Networks Are Different from Other Types of Networks - Mark Newman and Juyong Park PART TWO: CHARACTERIZING SMALL-WORLD NETWORKS Network 'Small-World-Ness' - Mark Humphries and Kevin Gurney A Quantitative Method for Determining Canonical Network Equivalence Efficient Behavior of Small-World Networks - Vito Latora and Massimo Marchiori Structural Fault Tolerance of Scale-Free Networks - Jingbo Hao, Jianping Yin and Boyun Zhang Efficiency of Scale-Free Networks - Paolo Crucitti et al Error and Attack Tolerance Economic Small-World Behavior in Weighted Networks - Vito Latora and Massimo Marchiori PART THREE: NETWORK EVOLUTION Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks - Albert-Laszlo Barabasi and Reka Albert Six Degrees of 'Who Cares?' - Rick Grannis Effects of 'Rich-Gets-Richer' Rule on Small-World Networks - Hongwei Dai et al Revisiting 'Scale-Free' Networks - Evelyn Fox Keller PART FOUR: NETWORK DYNAMICS Game Theory and Physics - Christoph Hauert and Gyorgy Szabo Complex Contagions and the Weakness of Long Ties - Damon Centola and Michael Macy The Emperor's Dilemma - Damon Centola, Robb Willer and Michael Macy A Computational Model of Self-Enforcing Norms Networks, Dynamics and the Small-World Phenomenon - Duncan Watts Social Games in a Social Network - Guillermo Abramson and Marcelo Kuperman VOLUME FOUR: MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS PART ONE: BIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Network Biology - Albert-Laszlo Barabasi and Zoltan Oltvai Understanding the Cell's Functional Organization The Emergent Properties of a Dolphin Social Network - David Lusseau Small-World Patterns in Food Webs - Jose Montoya and Ricard Sole Graph Theoretic Topology of the Great but Small Barrier Reef World - Stuart Kininmonth, Glenn De'ath and Hugh Possingham Scale-Free Networks in Biology - Yuri Wolf, Georgy Karev and Eugene Koonin New Insights into the Fundamentals of Evolution? PART TWO: NEUROSCIENCE Small-World Brain Networks - Danielle Smith Bassett and Ed Bullmore The Small World of the Cerebral Cortex - Olaf Sporns and Jonathan Zwi Delayed Feedback Control of Bursting Synchronization in a Scale-Free Neuronal Network - Carlos Batista et al Functional Neural Network Analysis in Frontotemporal Dementia and Alzheimer 's Disease Using EEG and Graph Theory - Willem de Haan et al The Brainstem Reticular Formation Is a Small-World, Not Scale-Free, Network - Mark Humphries, Kevin Gurney and T. Prescott PART THREE: EPIDEMIOLOGY Networks and Epidemic Models - Matt Keeling and Ken Eames The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years - Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler The Impacts of Network Topology on Disease Spread - Mark Shirley and Steve Rushton Modeling Development of Epidemics with Dynamic Small-World Networks - Jari Saramaki and Kimmo Kaski Small-World Effect in an Epidemiological Model - Marcelo Kuperman and Guillermo Abramson PART FOUR: COMPUTER SCIENCE Spatial Small Worlds - Sean Gorman and Rajendra Kulkarni New Geographic Patterns for an Information Economy Epidemic Spreading in Scale-Free Networks - Romualdo Pastor-Satorras and Alessandro Vespignani Graph Structure in the Web - Andrei Broder et al On the Design of Resilient Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Small-World Concepts - Daniel Guidoni, Raquel Mini and Antonio Loureiro Hyperlink Analyses of the World Wide Web - Han Woo Park and Mike Thewall A Review PART FIVE: INFORMATION SCIENCE Semantic Networks - Javier Borge-Holthoefer and Alex Arenas Structure and Dynamics Strong Correlations between Text Quality and Complex Networks Features - Lucas Antiqueira et al Co-Authorship Networks and Patterns of Scientific Collaboration - Mark Newman Social Network Analysis - Evelien Otte and Ronald Rousseau A Powerful Strategy, also for the Information Sciences Global and Local Features of Semantic Networks - Yoed Kenett et al Evidence from the Hebrew Mental Lexicon PART FOUR: INFRASTRUCTURE AND ENGINEERING Flow Dimension and Capacity for Structuring Urban Street Networks - Bin Jiang Empirical Analysis of a Scale-Free Railway Network in China - W. Li and X. Cai Simulating Wildfire Patterns Using a Small-World Network Model - J.K. Adou et al Experiential Hierarchies of Streets - Martin Tomko, Stephan Winter and Christophe Claramunt The Network Analysis of Urban Streets - Sergio Porta, Paolo Crucitti and Vito Latora A Dual Approach PART FIVE: PSYCHOLOGY Defeating Denial - Bem Allen Limited Nuclear War and the Small-World Problem Modeling Belief Systems with Scale-Free Networks - Miklos Antal and Laszlo Balogh A 'Small-World' Network Model of Cognitive Insight - Melissa Schilling Scaling Laws in Cognitive Sciences - Christopher Kello et al Altered Small-World Brain Functional Networks and Duration of Heroin Use in Male Abstinent Heroin-Dependent Individuals - Kai Yuan et al PART SIX: BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT Small-World Networks and Management Science Research - Brian Uzzi, Luis Amaral and Felix Reed-Tsochas A Review The Network Paradigm in Organizational Research - Stephen Borgatti and Pacey Foster A Review and Typology Are Small World Networks Always Best for Innovation? - Tim Kastelle and John Steen Knowledge Networks - Morten Hansen Explaining Effective Knowledge-Sharing in Multi-Unit Companies Information-Processing and Problem-Solving - William Stevenson and Mary Gilly The Migration of Problems through Formal Positions and Networks of Ties PART SEVEN: ECONOMICS, POLITICS AND POWER Who Knows Whom? Acquaintanceship and Contacts in the Israeli National Elite - Michael Gurevitch and Alex Weingrod Just How Small Is This World Really? An Application of Small-World Theory to the Study of Globalization - Annette Freyberg-Inan On the Topological Properties of the World Trade Web - Giorgio Fagiolo, Javier Reyes and Stefano Schiavo A Weighted Network Analysis The Social Structure of the World Polity - Jason Beckfield The Small World of the American Corporate Elite, 1982-2001 - Gerald Davis, Mina Yoo and Wayne Baker

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Details

• NCID: BB10704157
• ISBN:
  • 9780857025883
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Los Angeles
• Pages/Volumes: 4 v.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 302.3
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Social networks
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA60309623