Dynamic network models: introduction to new and interdisciplinary approaches

摘要

On September 26-27, 2005, the National Academies hosted a special conference on dynamic models for networks. The meeting was funded through a research grant from the National Security Agency, with some organizational support from NSF Grant DMS-0437183/SES 0437239. The purpose of the meeting was to bring together researchers in different fields, all of whom were working on aspects of creating mathematical descriptions of network change. This special issue collects a representative but nonrandom sample of the papers presented at that conference.