Network Formation: General Resources

Last Updated: 7 March 2024

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Table of Contents:

Important Disclaimer: Many excellent network formation resources originally posted at this site have had to be removed due to broken links. Below are annotated links to still-available resources that visitors might find useful and/or of historical interest.

Introductory Readings

ACE/ABM Network Formation Research

Software, Toolkits, and Computer Demos

Some Early Individual Researchers

Important Disclaimer: Research on social network formation is now so extensive it is impossible to keep the links below either current or complete. These links were last thoroughly updated in 2009 and can be viewed as an historical record of some early researchers in this area.

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John E. Abraham, (Civil Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada): Microsimulation of urban economic and transportation systems for transportation planning, urban planning and policy analysis. Part of a team of Canadian researchers focusing on locational decisions of firms and households and the related decisions of land developers, and how these are influenced by the economic flows/trips that occur among given locations.

Howard E. Aldrich (Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, U.S.A.): Entrepreneurship; Origins of new organizational populations; Organizational evolution.

Holly Arrow (Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene): Human-subject experiments with endogenous formation of socioeconomic networks; Social psychology

B

Venkatesh Bala (Economics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada): Noncooperative theory of network formation; learning from neighbors; a strategic model of network reliability

Albert-László Barabási (Physics, University of Notre Dame, Indiana): Networks; Internet; Cellular Networks; Parasitic computing.

Jennifer L. Berdahl (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto): The dynamics of composition and socialization in small groups -- insights gained from a computational model; A theory of groups as complex systems; Dynamics of diversity in work groups

Phillip Bonacich (Professor Emeritus, Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles): Social networks; Evolution of exchange networks.

Steve Borgatti (Organization Studies, Boston College, Massachusetts): Social networks; Knowledge flows in organizations; Network methodology.

Yann Bramoulle (Department of Economics, University of Laval, Quebec, Canada): Interdependent utilities and social networks.

C

Antoni Calvó-Armengol (Economics, ICREA, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and CEPR): Bargaining networks; Referral networks; Formation of socioeconomic networks.

Kathleen M. Carley (School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA): Computational and social and organization theory; dynamic social networks; multi-agent network models; group, organizational, and social adaptation and evolution; statistical models for dynamic network analysis and evolution; computational text analysis; and the impact of telecommunication technologies on communication and information diffusion within and among groups.

Alessandra Casella (Economics, Columbia University, N.Y.): Trade networks

Dean Corbae (Economics, University of Texas, Austin): Directed matching and monetary exchange; Endogenous market participation.

Margarida Corominas-Bosch (Economics, Universitat Pompeau Fabra, Barcelona): Bilateral trading networks modelled as bargaining models under rigid communication

D

Catherine Dibble (Geography, University of Maryland, College Park): Agent-based simulation; Computational laboratories in economic geography; Formation and effects of socio-economic networks in spatial landscapes; Small-world networks.

Elenna Dugundji (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands): Land use transportation planning and policy; Long-term effects of multi-modal transportation infrastructure planning and pricing policy in relation to the residential choice behavior of households; Agent-based simulation within the framework of the AMADEUS research program.

Bhaskar Dutta (Economics, Warwick University, UKB): Endogenous formation of networks; Analyzing conflict between stability and efficiency in networks.

E

Victor M. Eguiluz (IMEDEA, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain): Dynamical models of socio-economical network formation and evolution.

F

Marcel Fafchamps (Center for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University, UK): Networks, communities, and markets in Subsahara Africa; Risk sharing in networks in rural Philippines; Market emergence, trust, and reputation.

Giorgio Fagiolo (St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy): ACE Labor market dynamics; Local interaction models; Evolution of social and economic networks; Learning; Endogenous interactions; Economics of innovation and technical change.

Linton C. Freeman (Sociology and Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, University of California at Irvine): Social network analysis; Visualizing social networks; Uncovering organizational hierarchies.

G

Nigel Gilbert (Department of Sociology, University of Surry, UK): Innovation networks; Simulation in the social sciences; Sociology of the environment and science policy.

Sanjeev Goyal (Department of Economics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK): Noncooperative theory of network formation; learning from neighbors; Collaboration and competition in networks; Strategic analysis of network reliability

Amy Greenwald (Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, RI): Learning in network contexts; Automated buyer search on electronic markets; Strategic dynamic pricing by software agents; Game theory.

H

Nobuyuki Hanaki (GREQAM, Aix-Marseille University, France): Co-evolution of individual behaviors and interaction structures; Networks and markets; Dynamics of collaboration networks

Joseph E. Harrington, Jr. (Economics, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.): Endogenous networks; Centralization versus decentralization in multi-unit organizations; Progressive ambition, electoral selection, and the creation of ideologues.

Dirk Helbing (Institute for Economics and Traffic, Dresden University of Technology, Germany): Concepts from physics applied to the study of supply networks and business cycles; Pedestrian and vehicle traffic; Sociodynamics and game theory; Econophysics.

Midori Hirokawa (Faculty of Economics, Hosei University, Tokyo): Formation of communities by natives and newcomers; Network design

I

J

Matthew O. Jackson (Economics, Stanford University, CA): Strategic models of social and economic networks; Evolution of social and economic networks; Coalition and Party Formation in legislative voting games; Reputation versus social learning.

K

Raja Kali (Economics, Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas, Fayettesville): Institutional foundations of industrial organization; Endogenous business networks as a response to inadequate legal and financial institutions; The role of business networks in the process of economic development; Financial interlinkage and assortative matching.

Maureen Kilkenny (Resource Economics, University of Nevada-Reno): Spatial economics; Computable general equilibrium modelling

Alan Kirman (GREQAM - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix Marseille, France): Market organization and trading relationships; Trade network structures; Endogenous interactions.

Rachel Kranton (Economics, University of Maryland, College Park): A theory of buyer-seller networks; Vertical integration, networks, and markets.

Valdis Krebs (Organizational Consultant, Organizational Network Anaysis, DotCom): Building adaptive organizations in the networked knowledge economy; Organizational network mapping; Terrorist networks.

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M

Michael W. Macy (Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.): Informal social control in on-line trading communities; Coalition formation in exchange networks; Trust and cooperation in the U.S. and Japan; Management fads; Collective action; Evolutionary game theory; Deviance and social control; Social psychology; Social Exchange theory; Rational choice.

Filippo Menczer (School of Informatics and Department of Computer Science, Indiana University, Bloomington): Evolutionary agents to model societies and organizations; Referral networks in labor markets; Management networks in organizations.

N

Kai Nagel (Computer Science, TU Berlin): Large-scale agent-based microsimulations for transportation planning; Simulation of the economic decision-making that leads to demand for transportation; General micro-simulation of socio-economic systems.

Matthew G. Nagler (Economics, Lehman College, City University of New YorKB): Network effects of sport utility vehicles; Negative externalities that breed network externalities (i.e. "stick networks" as opposed to "carrot networks"); Consumer behavior.

Anna Nagurney (Finance and Operations Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts): Network models of large-scale financial, transportation, and regional economic systems; Algorithms on serial and parallel computer architectures to predict flows of funds, people, goods, and services.

O

John M. Orbell (Professor Emeritus, Political Science, University of Oregon, Eugene): Evolution of cooperation and trust; Coordination issues and social chess; Intersection of evolutionary theory, cognitive science, and the study of human social relations; Evolutionary psychology.

David O'Sullivan (Geography, Penn State University, University Park): Cellular automata and graph based models applied to urban spatial phenomena; Internet geography; Geocomputation and agent-based modelling.

P

Denis Phan (Center for Research in Economics and Management, University of Rennes, France): Global and local effects of interaction structures; Network externalities; Small-world networks, phase transitions, and avalanches in ACE frameworks; Moduleco (an agent-based computational laboratory); Cognitive economics; Generic properties of complex adaptive systems.

Margaret M. Polski (Institute for Development Strategies, Indiana University, Bloomington, and A. T. Kearney, New YorKB): Agent-based modelling; Economic development and institutional change; Innovation and growth in the new economy; Institutional evolution and change in U.S. commercial banking; Legislative games.

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R

James E. Rauch (Economics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California): Impact of bureaucratic structure on bureaucratic and economic performance; Incomplete information and networks in international trade; Networks and markets.

S

Giora Slutzki (Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames): Graph theory; networks and game theory.

Tom A. B. Snijders (Department of Sociology, University of Groningen, the Netherlands): Evolution of social networks; Statistical methods; Simulation models; Random utility; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Simulation-based estimation.

Raphael Suire (Center for Research in Economics and Management, University of Rennes, France): Local interaction models; Social capital; Social networks; Spatial dynamics.

T

Leigh Tesfatsion (Economics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa): Agent-based computational economics; The design of restructured wholesale power markets; A computational laboratory for visualizing and analyzing the formation of buyer-seller trade networks under alternative market structures; Market power, hysteresis, and excess earnings heterogeneity in labor markets arising from network and behavioral effects.

Ted Temzelides (Economics, University of Pittsburgh, PA): Directed matching and monetary exchange; Search equilibrium; Learning in market games.

U

Brian Uzzi (Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston): How professionals, entrepreneurs, and firms develop and use social networks to make markets and manage transactions.

V

Anne van de Nouweland (Economics, University of Oregon, Eugene): Link formation in cooperative situations

Fernando Vega-Redondo (Facultad de Económicas, Universidad de Alicante, Spain): Learning in games; Evolution; Networks; Complex dynamics.

Balázs Vedres (Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University): Social and economic transformation from a network perspective; The analysis of the sequences of network events; Inter-organizational and intra-organizational networks; Conceptual and discourse networks.

Nick Vriend (Economics, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London): Dynamics of interactive market processes; Emergent properties of evolving market structures and outcomes.

W

Douglas White (Anthropology and Social Science, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA): Social networks and sociocultural complexity; longitudinal fieldsite and network ethnography; cross-cultural comparisons.

Allen Wilhite (Economics, University of Alabama in Huntsville): Small-world networks; Decision making when agents are influenced by the decisions of others.

Ian F. Wilkinson (Marketing, University of Sydney, Australia): Evolution of institutional and network structures; Structural dynamics of industrial networks; the Kauffman NK model.

Randall D. Wright III (Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia): Dynamic matching in monetary exchange; Pricing and matching with frictions; Search equilibria.

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Martin G. Zimmermann (Department of Physics, University of Buenos Aires): Dynamical models of socio-economic network formation and evolution.

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