Small World Research

Four-Volume Set
ISBN: 978-0-85702-588-3
Verlag: SAGE PUBN

Buch, Englisch, 1552 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 3266 g

Reihe: SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schnettler, Sebastian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Röper, Beate Völker 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-László Barabási and Eric Bonabeau
Models of the Small World - Mark Newman
Classes of Small-World Networks - Luís 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-László Barabási and Réka 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-László Barabási and Zoltán 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 Solé
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

Über Autor(innen)

Schnettler, Sebastian
Sebastian Schnettler is currently employed as a lecturer (Akademischer Rat) at the University of Konstanz. Before obtaining his Ph.D. in Sociology at Yale University in 2010, he studied Sociology, Statistics, and Economics at Free University Berlin and Lund Universitet in Sweden, and worked for one year as a Junior Consultant in a consulting firm for non-profit organizations and industry associations in Washington, DC. After obtaining his Ph.D., Schnettler worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany. He has written comprehensively on the subject of the Small-World phenomenon in social networks, and his other research interests include social network analysis more generally, and topics which lie at the intersection of evolutionary biology and the social sciences.