… Finally, David Knoke describes the voluminous work on social networks and elite decision
making. In addition to reviewing the early work on elite networks, he describes recent …

… This is because our method is focused on the texts not on any specific social network … the
Group Decision Making method to retrieve all the required information from the social network. …

… The present research shows how stateof-the-art advances in social network analysis can
be used to test hypotheses derived from a theory of interpersonal influence. More importantly, …

… (A) When faced with a social dilemma, such as choosing whom to deal with at the food
market, several brain areas process social information to guide the decision (B). These social …

… propagate through a social network have been studied in a … algorithmic problem for such
social network processes: if we can … most widely studied models in social network analysis. The …

… People rely very heavily on their network of relationships to find information and solve
problems—one of the most consistent findings in the social science literature is that who you know …

… An important distinction to make between measurement in physics and measurement in
decision making is that in the first we usually seek measurements that approximate to the weight …

… In social science, the structural approach that is based on the study of interaction among
social actors is called social network analysis. The relationships that social network analysts …

… that social structure is an important feature of a variety of societal institutions. As … decision
making, we believe that judicial social structure-operationalized as the professional and social …

… to short and long-term social sustainability. Used as a decision-making model, the network
allows evaluation of the infrastructure based on its contribution to the social goal. The …