How does the structure of the world economy determine the gains from participation therein?
In order to answer this question, we conduct a state of the art network analysis of …

The analysis of the factors pulling and pushing students in a foreign country to complete
their higher education is key for the implementation of university policies aimed at increasing …

We start our chapter with a discussion of social systems composed of positions and roles.
This is followed by a set of methods for identifying positions and roles and for delineating …

We present a new method for decomposing a social network into an optimal number of
hierarchical subgroups. With a perfect hierarchical subgroup defined as one in which every …

The aim of the paper is to compare and evaluate different approaches to detecting regular
equivalence classes of valued networks. The evaluated approaches include different …

This thesis demonstrates how network analysis, ecological economics and the world-system
perspective can be combined into an ecographic framework that can yield new insights into …

The paper starts with an observation that the blockmodeling of relatively sparse binary
networks (where we also expect sparse non-null blocks) is problematic. The use of regular …

In this paper, blockmodeling, a network analysis clustering approach, is used to study and
capture clusters of concepts. The semantics networks are a former stage of the extracted …

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The notion of social roles is a centerpiece of most sociological theoretical considerations.
Regular equivalences were introduced by White and Reitz in [29] as the least restrictive …