Social network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A social network is a social structure made of individuals (or organizations) called "nodes," which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship...
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Social network theory views social relationships in terms of nodes and ties. Nodes are the individual actors within the networks, and ties are the relationships between the actors. There can be many kinds of ties between the nodes.
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We might have been talking about electrical currents (and indeed there is a branch of network theory that deals with such matters, though electrical circuits tend to be simpler than social networks). But consider.
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Network theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Network theory is an area of applied mathematics and network science and part of graph theory. It has application in many disciplines including particle physics, computer science, biology, economics,...
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"Travers and Milgram's classic six degrees of separation experiment was one of the first large-scale attempts at studying a human network, but almost 40 years later the interaction between social network structure and collective problem solving is still largely a matter of theoretical conjecture," said Michael Kearns,
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thatkidandy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2the strength of a network is really dependent on the strength of large 'hubs'; for example you can get to a hell of a lot of places on the internet in just 6 'clicks' thats because hubs like google have a MASSIVE number of links and connections;
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An ad hoc mobility model founded on social network theory Export ... social-networks ... social-network-analysis...
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University of Pennsylvania Computer Scientists Puts Social Network Theory to the Test; August 10, 2006; ...  "Our goal was to initiate a controlled, behavioral component of social network studies that lets us deliberately vary network structure and examine its impact on human behavior and performance."
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A social network that already has all of the pieces in place: email, instant messaging, blogs, image and video sharing. If Google really wanted to own a social network, it could take the $240M it just saved and put that towards building a kick-ass one.
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