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Contents 1 Topic Page on Social Network Analysis 1.1 Backgrounders 1.2 Research Papers 1.3 Tools 1.4 Key Researchers 1.5 Key Concepts

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Key Concepts