Complexities of social networks: A Physicist's perspective
Physics and Society
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The review is a survey of the present status of research in social networks highlighting the topics of small world property, degree distributions, community structure, assortativity, modelling, dynamics and searching in social networks.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0605072,
title = {Complexities of social networks: A Physicist's perspective},
author = {Parongama Sen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0605072},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
17 pages, an updated version will be published as a chapter in the book Econophysics and Sociophysics: Trends and perspectives, ed. B. K. Chakrabarti, A. Chakrabarti and A. Chatterjee, Wiley-VCH 2006