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Dr Smith here presents essential mathematical and computational ideas of network optimisation for senior undergraduate and postgraduate students in mathematics, computer science and operational research. He shows how algorithms can be used for finding optimal paths and flows, identifying trees in networks, and optimal matching. Later chapters discuss postman and salesperson tours, and demonstrate how many network problems are related to the ''minimal-cost feasible-flow'' problem. Techniques are presented both informally and with mathematical rigour and aspects of computation, especially of com

Graph theory --- Network analysis (Planning) --- Mathematical optimization. --- Data processing.

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Political geography -- United States --- Names, Geographical --- Geography -- Network analysis

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Social Network Analytics: Computational Research Methods and Techniques focuses on various technical concepts and aspects of social network analysis. The book features the latest developments and findings in this emerging area of research. In addition, it includes a variety of applications from several domains, such as scientific research, and the business and industrial sectors. The technical aspects of analysis are covered in detail, including visualizing and modeling, network theory, mathematical models, the big data analytics of social networks, multidimensional scaling, and more. As analyzing social network data is rapidly gaining interest in the scientific research community because of the importance of the information and insights that can be culled from the wealth of data inherent in the various aspects of the network, this book provides insights on measuring the relationships and flows between people, groups, organizations, computers, URLs, and more.

Community organization --- Computer architecture. Operating systems --- Online social networks. --- Social sciences --- Data mining. --- Computational linguistics. --- Network analysis.

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This collection of articles aims at revitalizing the study of kinship and exchange in a social network perspective. It brings together studies of empirical systems of marriage and descent with investigations of the flow of material resources in societies of Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Europe. Restudies of classic ethnographic cases and fieldwork studies of kinship and exchange demonstrate how the social and material aspects of society are related, and address issues of concern to anthropology and the neighbouring disciplines of history, sociology and economics. This book marks the emergence of an era in the study of kinship and exchange using a productive combination of ethnographic substance with formal methods, one which leaves behind older structural-functionalist and culturalist assumptions.

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Exchange --- Kinship --- Social networks --- Social sciences --- Echange (Economie politique) --- Parenté --- Réseaux sociaux --- Sciences sociales --- Cross-cultural studies --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Network analysis. --- Etudes transculturelles --- Analyse de réseau --- Parenté --- Réseaux sociaux --- Analyse de réseau --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Network analysis (Social sciences) --- SNA (Social network analysis) --- Social network analysis --- System analysis --- Commerce --- Economic anthropology --- Economics --- Supply and demand --- Networking, Social --- Networks, Social --- Social networking --- Social support systems --- Support systems, Social --- Interpersonal relations --- Cliques (Sociology) --- Microblogs --- Ethnology --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Families --- Kin recognition --- Methodology

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The analysis of decision making under uncertainty has again become a major focus of interest. This volume presents contributions from leading specialists in different fields and provides a summary and synthesis of work in this area. It is based on a conference held at the Harvard Business School. The book brings together the different approaches to decision making - normative, descriptive, and prescriptive - which largely correspond to different disciplinary interests. Mathematicians have concentrated on rational procedures for decision making - how people should make decisions. Psychologists have examined how poeple do make decisions, and how far their behaviour is compatible with any rational model. Operations researchers study the application of decision models to actual problems. Throughout, the aim is to present the current state of research and its application and also to show how the different disciplinary approaches can inform one another and thus lay the foundations for the integrated analysis of decision making. The book will be of interest to researchers, teachers - for use as background reading for a decision theory course - students, and consultants and others involved in the practical application of the analysis of decision making. It will be of interest to specialists and students in statistics, mathematics, economics, psychology and the behavioural sciences, operations research, and management science.

Decision Making --- Decision making --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Problem solving --- Organization theory --- Decision making. --- Klinische psychologie --- Interactie en interventie. --- Prise de décision --- Business, Economy and Management --- Economics --- System analysis. --- Network analysis --- Network science --- Network theory --- Systems analysis --- System theory --- Mathematical optimization