TY - BOOK ID - 7076223 TI - Complex social networks PY - 2007 VL - 44 SN - 0521674093 9780521674096 0521857406 9780521857406 9780511804052 0511804059 PB - New York (N.Y.): Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Social networks KW - Sociometry KW - 302.35 KW - Educational tests and measurements KW - Mathematical sociology KW - Social interaction KW - Social psychology KW - Networking, Social KW - Networks, Social KW - Social networking KW - Social support systems KW - Support systems, Social KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Cliques (Sociology) KW - Microblogs KW - Business, Economy and Management KW - Economics KW - Social networks. KW - Sociometry. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7076223 AB - This 2007 book provides a systematic and self-contained account of the fast-developing theory of complex social networks. Social networks are central to the understanding of most socio-economic phenomena in the modern world. The classical approach to studying them relies on a methodology that abstracts from their size and complexity. In contrast, the approach taken in this book keeps complexity at the core, whilst integrating it with the incentive considerations that are preeminent in traditional economic analysis. The treatment starts with a detailed discussion of the basic models that act as 'benchmarks' for the complex-network literature: random networks, small worlds, and scale-free networks, before studying three different forces that underlie almost all network phenomena in social contexts: diffusion, search, and play. Finally, these forces are combined into a unified framework that is brought to bear on the issue of network formation and the coevolution of agents' behaviour and their pattern of interaction. ER -