Network Analysis Methodological Foundations /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Brandes, Ulrik (Editor), Erlebach, Thomas (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3418
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Data structures (Computer science).; Algorithms.; Computer science > Mathematics.; Discrete mathematics.; Computer Science.; Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science.; Computer Communication Networks.; Discrete Mathematics.; Data Structures.; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity.

‘Network’ is a heavily overloaded term, so that ‘network analysis’ means different things to different people. Specific forms of network analysis are used in the study of diverse structures such as the Internet, interlocking directorates, transportation systems, epidemic spreading, metabolic pathway...

Table of Contents:

• Fundamentals
• I Elements
• Centrality Indices
• Algorithms for Centrality Indices
• Advanced Centrality Concepts
• II Groups
• Local Density
• Connectivity
• Clustering
• Role Assignments
• Blockmodels
• Network Statistics
• Network Comparison
• Network Models
• Spectral Analysis
• Robustness and Resilience.