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template:Cybernetics is a nice box (below), but it implies network theory is some subcategory of cybernetics. I think that network theory is actually much wider than this, even if historically it grew out of cybernetics. --
stochata 2 July 2005 07:23 (UTC)
Founder of network theory
I couldn't find any info on Google to back this up, but I'm currently attending Northwestern and the concensus among professors here seems to be that Prof. Luis Amaral is the founder of Network Theory. Anyone care to back me up on this? --jp3z
>> No Luis Amaral is not the founder. Network theory started a long way back. It is a field of mathematics.
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From what I'm reading, Network Science and Network Theory (as presented in this current article) are the same thing. Any thoughts on whether or not there are actually two discrete topics here, or if this could be merged?
Sprhodes (
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03:05, 12 November 2010 (UTC).reply
I am unable to locate this previous discussion at the location indicated or in the archive there. I am going to put up some merge banners and direct discussion here. ~
Kvng (
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18:08, 13 November 2016 (UTC)reply
I would suggest reopening this discussion. I disagree with the comments by
Kvng above. In my experience network theory and network science effectively synonyms. Network science is in a sense graph theory but approached from a completely different viewpoint warranting separate pages. The material on
Network theory and
Network science largely overlaps. I would propose merging the former into the latter, in particular bringing the discussion in
Network theory#Network analysis into the
Network Science page. In general, a lot of the pages on network science are pretty messy so the whole field could use a cleanup.--
Fractalfalcon (
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13:59, 1 January 2021 (UTC)reply
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Kvng: I think the network science lead is accurate. I think the first paragraph of network theory is slightly confusing because it effectively just states the definition of graph theory - where network science/theory differs from graph theory is precisely in the applications. The remainder of the network theory lead largely says the same as the network science lead. I do in a sense see an argument for both pages (in the same way that "Theoretical Physics" is a way of doing "Physics", "Network Theory" is a way of doing "Network Science"). However, the material that would warrant being in
Network theory is not currently there but is pretty much what is covered by
Network science#Network properties. The material currently discussed in
Network theory would also be better described as
Network science. Note that several sections on the two pages overlap heavily. --
Fractalfalcon (
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15:39, 1 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Fractalfalcon, I'm all for eliminating overlap. If you're confident a merge is the best way to do that,
give it a try. An alternative approach is to delete repeated material from one article or the other. Once that is done, it should be easier to evaluate whether a merge is warranted. ~
Kvng (
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15:21, 4 January 2021 (UTC)reply
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Kvng: Ok thanks. I do think a merge is probably best. I will get the ball rolling this week. Obviously I haven't merged before so I will try to tread lightly and not break too much.... Thanks!
Fractalfalcon (
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15:47, 4 January 2021 (UTC)reply
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Category theory
This article talks a lot about networks as graphs, but doesn't include very much at all about
categories. There's been a lot of research in recent years about networks from a (monoidal) categorical perspective, with promising results, including work by
John Baez and Brendan Fong. I think we should include some of that here.
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Daviddwd (
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