The interdisciplinary field of knowledge discovery and data mining emerged from a
necessity of big data requiring new analytical methods beyond the traditional statistical …

Tie-formation mechanisms like homophily, reciprocity, transitivity, and preferential
attachment operate to varying degrees across contexts. Romantic ties tend to be …

The revolutionary advancement of technology in the past decade brought the attention of
academics and management practitioners to ways of improving innovative capabilities of …

Ecological civilization refers to the sum of the material production and consumption mode,
social organization and management system, values and ethics, and resource development …

Much research on the life-course measures friend ties using a single aspect of relationships.
This measurement has enabled the delineation of friendship networks and the application of …

Empirical studies of the spread of something through social networks, a process often called
diffusion, tend to rely on network data assembled from the measurement of multiple kinds of …

This study explores variation in composition and strength of close friendship ties across
timing and contexts of tie formation. Analyzing South Korean survey data and comparing it …

A large body of research aims to detect the spread of something through a social network.
This research often entails measuring multiple kinds of relationships among a group of …

Although African regional interventions have tangible effects on politics and order in African
states, we know little about how people living in the countries concerned experience and …

The social networks that interconnect groups of people are often “multi-layered”—comprised
of a variety of relationships and interaction types. Although researchers increasingly …