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SI 614 reading guide |
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There are two primary readings:
The structure and function of complex networks, M. E. J. Newman, SIAM Review 45, 167-256 (2003). (here refered to as MEJN)
Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek by Wouter de Nooy, Andrej Mrvar and Vladimir Batagelj (here referred to as Pajek)
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basic network metrics,
intro to Pajek |
Pajek Ch1: Looking for social structure |
network visualization
data sampling methods
clustering |
Pajek CH2: Attributes and Relations
Linton Freeman, 'Visualizing Social Networks', JOSS
optional Rowland Atkinson and John Flint, 'Accessing Hidden and Hard-to-Reach Populations: Snowball Research Strategies'
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| BFS & DFS |
Cormen, 'Algorithms': Elementary graph algorithms
optional: Ch 3 of Kleinberg and Tardos, 'Algorithm Design' |
Milgram's small world experiment
Watts-Strogatz small world model |
Watts & Strogatz, 'Collective Dynamics of Small World Networks', Nature, 1998
MEJN-SF 6: The Small World Model
Travers and Milgram, 'An experimental study of the small world problem'
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| Zipf's Law & fat tails, plotting & fitting distributions |
L. Adamic, Zipf, Power-laws, and Pareto - a ranking tutorial
Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf's law, M. E. J. Newman, Contemporary Physics 46, 323-351 (2005).
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random graphs
preferential attachment
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Barabasi and Albert, 'Emergence of scaling in random networks'
MEJN IV: Random Graphs
MEJN VII: Models of network growth
Optional: Topology of evolving networks: local events and universality, Reka Albert, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5234-5237 (2000) (used in Pajek)
Optional: Winners don't take all: Characterizing the
competition for links on the web David M. Pennock, Gary W. Flake, Steve Lawrence, Eric J. Glover, and C. Lee Giles, PNAS, April 16, 2002, vol. 99, no. 8
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centrality, betweenness
strength of weak ties |
Mark Granovetter, The Strength of Weak Ties, The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 78, No. 6 (May, 1973), 1360-1380.
Pajek Ch. 6: Center and Periphery
optional: Wayne E. Baker and Robert R. Faulkner, The Social Organization of Conspiracy: Illegal Networks in the Heavy Electrical Equipment Industry, American Sociological Review, Vol. 58, No. 6 (Dec, 1993)
optional: Noah E. Friedkin, 'Structural Bases of Interpersonal Influence in Groups: A Longitudinal Case Study, American Sociological Review, Vol. 58, No. 6 (Dec, 1993)
optional M. E. J. Newman, Who is the Best Connected Scientist? A Study of Scientific Coauthorship Networks. |
homophily
exploratory analysis of online communities
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S. Feld. Social structural determinants of similarity among associates. American Sociological Review, 47, 1982.
optional: L. A. Adamic and E. Adar. Friends and neighbors on the web. Social Networks, 25(3):211{230, 2003.
optional: L. A. Adamic, O. Buyukkokten, and E. Adar. A social network caught in the web. First Monday, 8(6), June 2003.
optional: L. A. Adamic and N. Glance. The political blogosphere and the 2004 US election: Divided they blog. In Proceedings of LinkKDD-2005, 2005.
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| network analysis with GUESS |
Eytan Adar, GUESS: A Language and Interface for Graph Exploration, CHI 2006
GUESS documentation |
structural similarity
motifs
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E. Alm and A. P. Arkin. Biological networks. Curr Opin
Struct Biol, 13(2):193{202, April 2003.
R. Milo, S. Itzkovitz, N. Kashtan, R. Levitt, S. Shen-Orr, I. Ayzenshtat, M. Sheffer, and U. Alon. Superfamilies of evolved and designed networks. Science, 303(5663):1538{1542, March 2004.
R. Milo, S. Shen-Orr, S. Itzkovitz, N. Kashtan, D. Chklovskii, and U. Alon. Network Motifs: Simple Building Blocks of Complex Networks. Science, 298(5594):824{827, 2002.
optional E. Ravasz, A. L. Somera, D. A. Mongru, Z. N. Oltvai, and A. L. Barabasi. Hierarchical organization of modularity in metabolic networks. Science, 297(5586):1551{1555, August 2002. |
directed & weighted networks
minimum spanning trees, flow |
Pajek Ch9: prestige
Broder et al, Graph Structure in the Web, 9th WWW conference, Amsterdam, May 2000.
optional Wasserman & Faust Ch5: Centrality and prestige |
| networks over time |
G. Kossinets and D. J. Watts. Empirical analysis of an evolv-
ing social network. Science, 311(5757):88-90, January 2006.
J. Leskovec, J. Kleinberg, and C. Faloutsos. Graphs over time: densification laws, shrinking diameters and possible explanations. In KDD '05: Proceeding of the eleventh ACM SIGKDD, pages 177-187, New York, NY, USA, 2005. ACM Press. |
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| ranking algorithms and information retrieval |
L. Page, S. Brin, R. Motwani, and T. Winograd. The pagerank citation
ranking: Bringing order to the web. Technical report, Stanford Digital
Library Technologies Project, 1998.
G. Erkan and D. R. Radev. Lexrank: Graph-based lexical centrality as salience in text summarization. Journal of Artificial Intelligence .
J. M. Kleinberg. Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment. Journal of the ACM, 46(5):604-632, 1999. |
| search in structured networks |
J. M. Kleinberg. Navigation in a small world. Nature, 406:845, 2000.
D. J. Watts, P. S. Dodds, and M. E. J. Newman. Identity and search in social networks. Science, 296:1302-1305, 2002.
MEJN VIII.C Search in networks
optional: J. Kleinberg. Small-world phenomena and the dynamics of information.Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 14, 2001.
optional: L. A. Adamic and E. Adar. How to search a social network. Social Networks, 27(3):187-203, 2005. |
| search in unstructured networks |
Adamic et al. 'Search in power law networks', Phys. Rev. E 64, 046135 (2001) |
| community structure |
Pajek Ch3: cohesive subgroups
Pajek Ch5: affiliations
Pajek Ch7: brokers and bridges
Guimera et al. Team Assembly Mechanisms Determine Collaboration Network Structure and Team Performance, Science 29 April 2005: Vol. 308. no. 5722, pp. 697 - 702 |
| clustering algorithms |
Mark Newman: Modularity and community structure in networks
Pajek Ch. 12: blockmodels |
| patent networks |
Gavin Clarkson: Patent Informatics for Patent Thicket Detection |
| network construction, robustness, p* models |
Error and attack tolerance of complex networks
Reka Albert , Hawoong Jeong & Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Nature 406, 378 - 382 (27 July 2000)
optional: Small and Other Worlds: Global Network Structures from Local Processes
Garry Robins; Philippa Pattison; Jodie Woolcock
The American Journal of Sociology; Jan 2005; 110, 4
optional: Modeling cascading failures in the North American power grid R. Kinney, P. Crucitti, R. Albert, and V. Latora
Eur. Phys. J. B 46, 101107 (2005)
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| mathematics of networks |
Mathematics of networks, M. E. J. Newman, in The New Palgrave Encyclopedia of Economics, 2nd edition, L. E. Blume and S. N. Durlauf (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan |
| epidemics in networks |
optional:
Vittoria Colizza, Alain Barrat, Marc Barthélemy, and Alessandro Vespignani. The role of the airline transportation network in the prediction and predictability of global epidemics. PNAS | February 14, 2006 | vol. 103 | no. 7 | 2015-2020 |
| information diffusion |
Davis, Gerald F., Yoo, Mina, Baker, Wayne E.
The Small World of the American Corporate Elite, 1982-2001 Strategic Organization 2003 1: 301-326
optional: Christopher Marquis and Gerald F. Davis, “Golfing alone? Elite
cohesion and community social capital, 1986-1998.” |
| online communities |
David Liben-Nowell, Jasmine Novak, Ravi Kumar, Prabhakar Raghavan and Andrew Tomkins. Geographic routing in social networks, PNAS | August 16, 2005 | vol. 102 | no. 33 | 11623-11628 |
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