SocialNetworks

= Topic Page on Social Network Analysis = '' This page is a umbrella page for research on Social Network Analysis in Political Science. It links to more detail as needed.''

Backgrounders

 * Network Analysis on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_analysis has tons of background information
 * E.g., about the Betweenness metric http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betweenness

Research Papers

 * "Exact solutions for models of evolving networks with addition and deletion of nodes" http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0604069/
 * "Predicting Epidemics on Directed Contact Networks" http://www.santafe.edu/research/publications/wpabstract/200412037
 * "The Structure and Dynamics of Networks" Mark Newman, Albert-László Barabási, and Duncan J. Watts http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8114.html

Tools

 * See Carley's list of tools at http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/computational_tools/tools.html
 * [JUNG]  (Note -- JUNG is integrated with the new version of RePast as well)
 * [DyNet], [ORA] from CASOS

Key Researchers

 * [Kathleen Carley] at the [Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS)]
 * S. Borgatti
 * Mark Neuman http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/pubs.html
 * Stanley Wasserman
 * Katherine Faust