Talk:Network

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Contents 1 Graph theory 2 Headline text 3 Clean up 3.1 Transport and infrastructure 3.2 Further reading 4 Large Renovation Required

[edit] Graph theory

...a graph of interconnected nodes which form some sort of system. Many aspects of reality have a network structure thus identifying it as a basic process. Some characteristics of a network are evolutionary growth; some nodes called hubs have many more connections to other nodes; and increased dependence on the integrity of hubs as compared to other nodes for the robustness of the network.

Removed. This may be useful information, but I think it might be best located in a more specific article. In any case, I don't know how to make it fit in with the current revision. --Ryguasu 17:04 Dec 3, 2002 (UTC)

Removal was unjustified. The information is from the developing sience of network theory or network science. See the extended bibliography and the cited NYT's article. We probably need articles on network science and on the genre of books being published as consumer studies. Fred Bauder 12:58 Jan 25, 2003 (UTC)

The page about graph theory gives a very nice definition. How about renaming this page into "network theory" or "applied graph theory".

[edit] Headline text

Human socialization" section. --DragonHawk 21:10, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

They're gone now. --DragonHawk 17:21, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clean up

I have clean up this dab (the dif), and the info I have removed is now below:

[edit] Transport and infrastructure

• Transport networks (roads, railroads, shipping routes and airlines)
• pipelines (gas, petroleum, water, sewage),
• Electricity networks (electric power - generation, transmission and distribution).

• The Internet is a large-scale computer network. Also, a website and the whole World Wide Web are networks of webpages, a link web.

• List of mobile network operators lists all major mobile phone carriers across the world.

• criminal networks

• Support networks, such as the Samaritans or Alcoholics Anonymous
• Espionage networks, in which controllers "run" agents in small groups. These groups then connect together, making larger networks.

[edit] Further reading

By network scientists:

1. Linked: The New Science of Networks, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Perseus Publishing, 2002. Hardcover Textbook. ISBN 0738206679.
2. Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks, Mark Buchanan, W. W. Norton, 2002, hardcover, 256 pages, ISBN 0393041530
3. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, Duncan J. Watts, W. W. Norton, February, 2003, Hardcover: 448 pages. ISBN 0393041425
4. Evolution of Networks: from biological networks to the Internet and WWW, S.N. Dorogovtsev and J.F.F. Mendes, Oxford University Press, January, 2003, ISBN 0198515901

Consumer studies using network theory:

1. Tipping Point: How Little things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown, 2002, trade paperback, 304 pages, ISBN 0316346624
2. Influentials: One American in Ten Tells the Other Nine How to Vote, Where to Eat, and What to Buy, Edward B. Keller, Jonathan L. Berry, Douglas B. Reeves, Free Press, 2003, paperback, ISBN 0743227301
3. Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers, Alissa Quart, Perseus, 2002, hardcover, 256 pages, ISBN 0738206644

(bibliography derived from New York Times article, January 25, 2003 "Connect, They Say, Only Connect") --Commander Keane 07:21, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Large Renovation Required

I do very much disagree with the content of this page under the term "Network". There is no formal definition and only examples are given. Examples are very necessary for a term like this, but only after a proper definition. It is not correct to define something in an encyclopedia by putting a bunch of examples. This page should:

• 1) Give a formal definition of what a network is, where the unavoidable link to "Graph" and "Graph Theory" is to be done. Let's say that mathematically speaking a network is a graph where some property is flowing. Thus network := Graph G(V,m) : exists a flow.
• 2) It has to be mentioned how due to language abuse the word "network" has become the standard one to refer about "graphs". An abuse strongly motivated by the re-born of the graph theoretical field in the recent years under the name of "Complex Networks"
• 3) Due to the vast number of examples that can be given (and have to be given) further classification is strongly recommended and examples organized into: Social networks, technological networks, biological networks, transportation networks ... and within each section include the proper specific examples. Besides, once this page is properly adapted, I would recommend to further introduce independent entries called: Technological networks, biological networks ... and explain the characteristics of each type of networks in their own entry.
• 4) References should be divided into two parts: one comprising the most influecial papers and reviews for the field, and two, general public books.

So if you do agree with my recomendations and are interested in reshaping this page in collaboration, just visit my webpage and contact me: www.agnld.uni-potsdam.de/~gorka