Network science
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Network science is an academic field which studies complex networks such as telecommunication networks, computer networks, biological networks, cognitive and semantic networks, and social networks, considering distinct elements or actors represented by nodes (or vertices) and the connections between the elements or actors as links (or edges). The field draws on theories and methods including graph theory from mathematics, statistical mechanics from physics, data mining and information visualization from computer science, inferential modeling from statistics, and social structure from sociology. The United States National Research Council defines network science as "the study of network representations of physical, biological, and social phenomena leading to predictive models of these phenomena."
See also
- Climate as complex networks
- Collaborative innovation network
- Communicative ecology
- Complex network
- Core-periphery structures in networks
- Dual-phase evolution
- Erdős–Rényi model
- Glossary of graph theory
- Higher category theory
- Immune network theory
- Irregular warfare
- Network analyzer
- Network dynamics
- Network formation
- Network theory in risk assessment
- Network topology
- Networks in labor economics
- Non-linear preferential attachment
- Percolation
- Policy network analysis
- Polytely
- Quantum complex network
- Random networks
- Rumor spread in social network
- Scale-free networks
- Sequential dynamical system
- Service network
- Small-world networks
- Structural cut-off
- Systems theory
