9Network Cohesion
9.1 OVERVIEW OF NETWORK COHESION
In social network analysis, the term network cohesion refers to a measure of the connectedness and togetherness among actors within a network. A social network can be defined as a network formed by a set of interacting social entities (actors) and the linkages (relations or edges) among them. The index of network cohesion is a single value that captures the togetherness of the group. Network cohesion can be measured in a variety of different ways, most of which are based on the dyadic cohesion or triadic cohesion [1].
Until now, we treated networks largely as static structures – we take a snapshot of the nodes and edges at a particular moment in time, and then ...
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