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2 Networks and Network Research in the 21st Century
Pages 11-18

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... Engineered networks are a major driver of This taxonomy is developed in Table 2-1, which identifies the increasingly global economy and can be of benefit to some important physical, social, and biological networks and both the United States and its competitors. gives an indication of their global impact.
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... who have never met Gene expression Transmission and Electronic financial Electronic cashless Supply chains and Coordination of networks evolution of life transaction networks transactions business networks multiple players to between generations (banking, credit cards, achieve common ATMs) goals, global cost reduction Social services Efficient delivery of networks (Social government services Security, family to large, distributed services, Medicare, constituencies Medicaid)
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... computing and failure or other recall electronic devices Cellular network High High Low N High National/ Instantaneous High Surgeand public global mobile caused switched worldwide outage telephone communications during a network crisis Sexual networks N/A Low Low N N/A Mostly local, Large segments High Onset of (e.g., those but with of population global leading to or modern afflicted with pandemic spreading HIV or transportation AIDS in sexual diseases) can be underdeveloped regional, world national, or global Internet data-link High Medium High N*
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... national conferences and workshops and summer schools have focused exclusively on network research, some draw Research on networks has become highly visible during ing close to 400 participants. Electrical engineering and comthe past 5 years.
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... . Four general-audience books, translated into over 10 lan- In addition to providing the knowledge underlying the guages and making the bestseller list in several countries, design and operation of many of the global communications, introduced the promise of network science to the general transportation, and power infrastructures noted in Tables 2-1 public (Barabási, 2002; Buchanan, 2002; Watts, 2003; and 2-2, network research is leading to the creation of new Huberman, 2001)
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From page 16...
... Search engines are not the only new business spawned by In an intermediate time frame, biology is likely to benefit network research. A rapidly evolving industry has developed from advances in network research (Barabási and Oltvai, around social networks.
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... Geoff Mulgan, Connexity: How to Live in a Connected World. Cam Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin, Mapping Cyberspace.
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From page 18...
... Recent network research is leading to new 107­117. and growing businesses.
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