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5 The Content of Network Science
Pages 30-32

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From page 30...
... Second, the questionnaire described in Appendix D was A central outcome of the committee's work is the realizacirculated to over 1,000 experts in applications areas perti- tion that network ideas span an enormous range of discinent to network science asking them for their definitions of plines and applications domains. As might be expected, rethe term and their notions of appropriate topical content.
From page 31...
... The committee found broad agreement among The core content of network science is basic science, curexperts in diverse applications domains on a set of core top- rently consisting of simplified models and of techniques that ics that would need to be mastered to pursue a discipline are appropriate for the analysis of small networks that exlabeled as "network science." hibit low topological complexity in the terminology of Table 2-2. The analysis of network structure is more advanced than Finding 5-2.
From page 32...
... . Such complex networks are said to exhibit Because committees are notoriously inept at developing emergent behavior if the behaviors of their components lead curricula or specifying the research content of a science disto unanticipated -- that is, "emergent" -- behavior of the net- cipline, this committee makes no attempt to do either.


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