It appears that LinkSViewer has taken the next step by applying graph theory to a new business venture. This company is a “leading-edge Visual Network Analysis software and consulting firm” who actually take the connections between people and businesses and generate a network based on that information. They then sell the resultant picture as “a […]

There are many games that have some element of trading in them, where one must interact with the other players (be they computers or humans) to get what one needs. One game that highlights many of the elements of trading is a popular board game called “Settlers of Catan”. This game has won many awards, […]

In class and the second homework we studied how users responded to a simple transportation network given certain costs for different segments. We saw that given a certain network, the nash equilibrium is not necessarily socially optimal (the joint strategy is not a social welfare maximizer). This fact is one problem facing urban […]

In his New York Times article “Can Network Theory Thwart Terrorists?”, author Patrick Radden Keefe discusses the recent applications of network theory by the CIA and other organizations in order to stop terrorists. Keefe discusses an early network created by Valdis Krebs in which Krebs used shared addresses, telephone numbers, and frequent flier miles to […]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/02/14/heartbreak.diamonds/index.html
The attached article discusses a new auction site that connects people who want to buy or sell engagement rings. This is a relatively new market because the sellers all broke up before marriage and are looking to sell their ‘heartbreak diamonds’.
 
This auction site came into existence because the creator found that upon […]

Anyone reading this blog post who is enrolled in this class or in any other large lecture has almost certainly experienced the phenomenon of students starting to pack up shortly before class is actually over. A few students will start packing up as soon as the professor (or the clock) intimates that the lecture will […]

The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose purpose is to promote cooperation in aspects such as economic development, social issues, human rights, international law, and security. Founded at the end of World War II and with an original member base of 50 countries, it now encompasses 192 member states. The UN is divided […]

http://kdl.cs.umass.edu/papers/fast-jensen-aaai2006.pdf
The link above leads to an article concerning the most significant network in the NFL: the network between coaches. From the beginning of the NFL to the present, almost every successful NFL coach has been linked to a great coach before him as an assistant under him. This article identifies the […]

Everyone knows how fast information can spread on the Internet, especially on social networking sites, such as Facebook or MySpace. Everyday new Facebook groups are created not just for fun, but, over the past year, there have been groups forming for specific causes. After Hurricane Katrina, numerous common interest groups popped up, trying to bring […]

Warnings Over Privacy of U.S. Health Network
The link above is an article from The New York Times by Robert Pear that raises several important questions about privacy issues in social networks. The Bush administration has a strong interest in creating a large electronic database of private health information that would be shared by different health […]