The "New" Science of Networks

• Published in: Annual review of sociology Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 243 - 270
• Main Author: Watts, Duncan J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Palo Alto, CA Annual Reviews 01.01.2004; Annual reviews; Annual Reviews, Inc
• Subjects: Actors; Community structure; Connectivity; Disease models; Dynamical systems; Epidemics; Epidemiology; Graph Theory; Infectious diseases; Interdisciplinary Approach; Mathematical Models; Mathematics; Methodology (Data Analysis); Network Analysis; Networks; Physics; rev genes; Science; Social interaction; Social networking; Social Networks; Social Processes; Social sciences; Sociology; Sociology of knowledge and ethics; Sociology of knowledge and sociology of culture; Sociology of science; Network Analysis; Sociology of science; Mathematical Model

In recent years, the analysis and modeling of networks, and also networked dynamical systems, have been the subject of considerable interdisciplinary interest, yielding several hundred papers in physics, mathematics, computer science, biology, economics, and sociology journals (Newman 2003c), as wel...