Network Science

National Research Council

doi:10.17226/11516

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Network Science

(2005)

The military is currently attempting to develop itself into a force capable of networkcentric operations. While this effort has highlighted the military’s dependence on interacting networks, it has also shown that there is a huge gap between what we need to know about networks and our fundamental knowledge about network behavior. This gap makes the military vision of NCO problematic. To help address this problem, the Army asked the NRC to find out whether identifying and funding a new field of “network science” could help close this gap. This report presents an examination of networks andthe military, an analysis of the promise, content, and challenges of network science, and an assessment of approaches to creating value from network science.

Contributor(s): National Research Council; Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences; Board on Army Science and Technology; Committee on Network Science for Future Army Applications

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National Research Council. 2005. Network Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/11516.

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124 pages | 8.5 x 11 | Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-309-10026-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/11516

Chapters		skim
Front Matter	i-xvi
Executive Summary	1-6
1 Introduction	7-10
2 Networks and Network Research in the 21st Century	11-18
3 Networks and the Military	19-25
4 The Definition and Promise of Network Science	26-29
5 The Content of Network Science	30-32
6 Status and Challenges of Network Science	33-38
7 Creating Value from Network Science: Scope of the Opportunity	39-45
8 Conclusions and Recommendations	46-52
Appendix A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members	53-57
Appendix B Committee Meetings and Other Activities	58-59
Appendix C Content of Network Science Courses	60-64
Appendix D Questionnaire Data	65-92
Appendix E Opportunities for Creating Value from Network Science	93-106
Appendix F Recommended Reading List	107-108

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