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Network theory
About: Network theory is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2257 publications have been published within this topic receiving 109864 citations.
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TL;DR: This review identifies several broad research areas where the networks approach could greatly enhance the understanding of social patterns and processes in animals.
Abstract: Social network theory has made major contributions to our understanding of human social organisation but has found relatively little application in the field of animal behaviour. In this review, we identify several broad research areas where the networks approach could greatly enhance our understanding of social patterns and processes in animals. The network theory provides a quantitative framework that can be used to characterise social structure both at the level of the individual and the population. These novel quantitative variables may provide a new tool in addressing key questions in behavioural ecology particularly in relation to the evolution of social organisation and the impact of social structure on evolutionary processes. For example, network measures could be used to compare social networks of different species or populations making full use of the comparative approach. However, the networks approach can in principle go beyond identifying structural patterns and also can help with the understanding of processes within animal populations such as disease transmission and information transfer. Finally, understanding the pattern of interactions in the network (i.e. who is connected to whom) can also shed some light on the evolution of behavioural strategies.
427 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a tourism destination has undergone significant transformation over the last 15 years, from its single Glowworm Cave attraction to an interdependent network involving underground adventure caving activities, and the case context for this illustration is an icon tourism destination in New Zealand, the Waitomo Caves.
422 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the classic concept of centrality discovered by Camille Jordan in the 19th century is introduced as a model for social network analysis and generalized to include the path center of a graph.
417 citations
TL;DR: A survey of the use of graph theoretical techniques in biology is presented in this article, with an emphasis on synchronisation and disease propagation, as well as the link between structural network properties and dynamics.
Abstract: A survey of the use of graph theoretical techniques in Biology is presented. In particular, recent work on identifying and modelling the structure of bio-molecular networks is discussed, as well as the application of centrality measures to interaction networks and research on the hierarchical structure of such networks and network motifs. Work on the link between structural network properties and dynamics is also described, with emphasis on synchronisation and disease propagation.
415 citations
01 May 1962
TL;DR: A brief survey of the evolution of system theory, together with an exposition of some of its main concepts, techniques and problems is presented in this paper, where the discussion is centered on the notion of state and emphasizes the role played by state-space techniques.
Abstract: The past two decades have witnessed profound changes in the composition, functions and the level of complexity of electrical as well as electronic systems which are employed in modem technology. As a result, classical RLC network theory, which was the mainstay of electrical engineering at a time when RLC networks were the bread and butter of the electrical engineer, has been and is being increasingly relegated to the status of a specialized branch of a much broader discipline-system theory-which is concerned with systems of all types regardless of their physical identity and purpose. This paper presents a brief survey of the evolution of system theory, together with an exposition of some of its main concepts, techniques and problems. The discussion is centered on the notion of state and emphasizes the role played by state-space techniques. The paper concludes with a brief statement of some of the key problems of system theory.
412 citations