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6 Status and Challenges of Network Science
Pages 33-38

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... Issues such · There is no universal consensus among researchers as reaching beyond the basic snowballing effect, detecting that an identifiable field of network science now ex- hoax responses, and determining the degree of coverage of ists, in part because there is no accepted definition of the researcher community are discussed further in Ap what the discipline of network science might be. pendix D
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... As a hypoquestionnaire accept the idea that network science is a thetical example, one might envision a simulation tool that definable field of investigation. deals with network models across a wide range of size scales and timescales, with a growing suite of model libraries cus The questionnaire analysis reveals a widespread but not tomized to specific application domains -- for example, ecouniversal consensus among the respondents that a definable logical networks, metabolic networks, transportation netfield of network science exists.
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... Respondents expressed a need for network The responses that proposed driving applications for netscience to provide tools that answer a common set of work science pointed to a highly disparate set of applicaquestions across a broad range of applications. tions, generally tightly bound to five major communities of research: technological, biological, social sciences, interdis Thirty-three percent of the responses provided definitions ciplinary, and physical sciences and mathematics.
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... It is RESEARCH CHALLENGES also possible that the categories could become the basis for Finding 6-6. Respondents identified seven major chalmore precise formal definitions of network science.
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... Tools, abstractions, and approximations are needed that al THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF NETWORK SCIENCE low reasoning about large-scale networks, as well as techniques for modeling networks characterized by The questionnaire data were provided to Katy Börner, noisy and incomplete data. associate professor of information science at Indiana Uni · Design and synthesis of networks.
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... Upon reviewing the results of the course of the questionnaire and citation studies.1 Names were analysis, the committee agreed to include the following two replaced by unique identification numbers to preserve the findings on the empirical state of the proposed field of netanonymity of the respondents. Relationships among the ini- work science: tial invitees, respondents, and identified collaborants are depicted in Figure 6-5.
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