Book description
This book explores social mechanisms that drive network change and link them to computationally sound models of changing structure to detect patterns. This text identifies the social processes generating these networks and how networks have evolved.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Wiley Series in Computational and Quantitative Social Science
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Temporal and Spatial Networks
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Chapter 2: Foundations of Methods for Large Networks
- 2.1 Networks
- 2.2 Types of Networks
- 2.3 Large Networks
- 2.4 Strategies for Analyzing Large Networks
- 2.5 Statistical Network Measures
- 2.6 Subnetworks
- 2.7 Connectivity Properties of Networks
- 2.8 Triangular and Short Cycle Connectivities
- 2.9 Islands
- 2.10 Cores and Generalized Cores
- 2.11 Important Vertices in Networks
- 2.12 Transition to Methods for Large Networks
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Chapter 3: Methods for Large Networks
- 3.1 Acyclic Networks
- 3.2 SPC Weights in Acyclic Networks
- 3.3 Probabilistic Flow in Acyclic Network
- 3.4 Nonacyclic Citation Networks
- 3.5 Two-Mode Networks from Data Tables
- 3.6 Bibliographic Networks
- 3.7 Weights
- 3.8 Pathfinder
- 3.9 Clustering, Blockmodeling, and Community Detection
- 3.10 Clustering Symbolic Data
- 3.11 Approaches to Temporal Networks
- 3.12 Levels of Analysis
- 3.13 Transition to Substantive Topics
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Chapter 4: Scientific Citation and Other Bibliographic Networks
- 4.1 The Centrality Citation Network
- 4.2 Preliminary Data Analyses
- 4.3 Transforming a Citation Network into an Acyclic Network
- 4.4 The Most Important Works
- 4.5 SPC Weights
- 4.6 Line Cuts
- 4.7 Line Islands
- 4.8 Other Relevant Subnetworks for a Bounded Network
- 4.9 Collaboration Networks
- 4.10 A Brief Look at the SNA Literature SN5 Networks
- 4.11 On the Centrality and SNA Collaboration Networks
- References
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Chapter 5: Citation Patterns in Temporal United States Patent Data
- 5.1 Patents
- 5.2 Supreme Court Decisions Regarding Patents
- 5.3 The 1976–2006 Patent Data
- 5.4 Structural Variables Through Time
- 5.5 Some Patterns of Technological Development
- 5.6 Important Subnetworks
- 5.7 Citation Patterns
- 5.8 Comparing Citation Patterns for two Time Intervals
- 5.9 Summary and Conclusions
- Chapter 6: The US Supreme Court Citation Network
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Chapter 7: Football as the World's Game
- 7.1 A Brief Historical Overview
- 7.2 Football Clubs
- 7.3 Football Players
- 7.4 Football in England
- 7.5 Player Migrations
- 7.6 Institutional Arrangements and the Organization of Football
- 7.7 Court Rulings
- 7.8 Specific Factors Impacting Football Migration
- 7.9 Some Arguments and Propositions
- 7.10 Some Preliminary Results
- 7.11 Player Ages When Recruited to the EPL
- 7.12 A Partial Summary of Results
- Chapter 8: Networks of Player Movements to the EPL
- Chapter 9: Mapping Spatial Diversity in the United States of America
- Chapter 10: On Studying Large Networks
- Appendix: Data Documentation
- References
- Person Index
- Subject Index
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: Understanding Large Temporal Networks and Spatial Networks: Exploration, Pattern Searching, Visualization and Network Evolution
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2014
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9780470714522
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