Emerging Areas
- Social networks (Sep 2010, IEEE Networks), NetSciCom 2009, 2010, 2011 (INFOCOM Workshops)
- Social network analysis for ad hoc networks, and the Internet (IEEE Networks, Nov/Dec 2010)
- IEEE Networks article, Dimokis (Aristotle), Tussilias (Thessaly), references therein
- Centrality measures for network design and control: Alberto Leon-Garcia (Toronto),
- Internet: On power law relationships of Internet topology, Faloustos (CMU)
- Power grid networks: mostly about vulnerability, survivability, robustness
- Robust network design, Alberto Leon-Garcia (Toronto)
- Biological networks (Vespignani's book)
- Biologically inspired networks: self-organizing and self-managing networks (May 2010 special issue, IEEE Networks)
- Sensor networks: Shuguang Cui (Texas A&M), H.T. Kung (Harvard)
- Cognitive: Helen Tang (Defence R&D Canada)
- IP Networks: Nazim Agoulmine (Univ. Ervy)
- Internet: topology analysis, traffic modeling and routing - many references
- Internet Topology discovery: Timur Friedman (UPMC, France), Ariel Orda, Technion
- Collaborative monitoring: Nadav Aharony (MIT)
- Topology analysis: Amid Vahdat (UCSD)
- Traffic modeling and routing: Deniz Zeuv (Oxford)
- Transportation networks: Pravin Varaiya (UCB)
Katy Börner, Soma Sanyal and Alessandro Vespignani (2007) Network Science
Processes involved in studying network science
- Network sampling: acquiring the network structure, typically incomplete, biased
- Measurement: node and edge properties, clusters, distributions, network types
- Modeling and Validation: generating random graphs
- Modeling dynamics: epidemics, stability
- Visualization: layouts
Social networks: 3
Power networks: 2,4
Also interesting: Eric Kolaczyk, Statistical Analysis of Network Data
Five broad areas
1. Network mapping (finding out which nodes to connect, visualizing the resulting graph)
2. Characterization (analyzing centrality, community structure etc)
3. Sampling and Modeling (estimating network size/totals by sampling)
4. Inference (topology inference, link prediction etc.)
5. Processes (static/dynamic random variables - analyze with MRF/regression)
Related workshops
1. SAMSI workshop on Complex Networks
2. MITACS Intl. Focus Period: Advances in Network Analysis & Applications