A comprehensive introduction to social network analysis that hones in on basic centrality measures, social links, subgroup analysis, data sources, and more Written by military, industry, and business professionals, this book introduces readers to social network analysis, the new and emerging topic that has recently become of significant use for industry, management, law enforcement, and military practitioners for identifying both vulnerabilities and opportunities in collaborative networked organizations.
Focusing on models and methods for the analysis of organizational risk, Social Network Analysis with Applications provides easily accessible, yet comprehensive coverage of network basics, centrality measures, social link theory, subgroup analysis, relational algebra, data sources, and more. Examples of mathematical calculations and formulas for social network measures are also included.
Along with practice problems and exercises, this easily accessible book covers:
The basic concepts of networks, nodes, links, adjacency matrices, and graphs
Mathematical calculations and exercises for centrality, the basic measures of degree, betweenness, closeness, and eigenvector centralities
Graph-level measures, with a special focus on both the visual and numerical analysis of networks
Matrix algebra, outlining basic concepts such as matrix addition, subtraction, multiplication, and transpose and inverse calculations in linear algebra that are useful for developing networks from relational data
Meta-networks and relational algebra, social links, diffusion through networks, subgroup analysis, and more
An excellent resource for practitioners in industry, management, law enforcement, and military intelligence who wish to learn and apply social network analysis to their respective fields, Social Network Analysis with Applications is also an ideal text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate level courses and workshops on the subject.
Author Biography:
IAN McCULLOH, PhD, holds academic appointments at severalinstitutions to include Curtin University Business School. Heconsults industry to increase collaboration in knowledge-intensiveorganizations and educates military intelligence professionals tomore ethically and effectively target enemy networks. He hassupported the U.S. Military with network analysis to includeservice in Afghanistan and Iraq. HELEN ARMSTRONG, PhD, is an Associate Professor in theSchool of Information Systems at Curtin University in Perth,Australia. She has more than twenty years' experience teaching andconducting research in ICT network security, analyses of networksand systems, information systems strategy, and management andproblem solving in business environments. She works closely withindustry in the application of network analyses for businessproblem solving and risk analyses. ANTHONY JOHNSON, PhD, is an Associate Professor in theDepartment of Mathematical Sciences at the United States MilitaryAcademy at West Point. He has served in a variety of positionsranging from Fiber Optic Cable Network Engineer for the White HouseCommunications Agency to the Chief of Counter Improvised ExplosiveDevice (CIED) Operations in Iraq where he applied linear algebraand graph theory to exploit terrorist networks.
