Network dynamics
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Network dynamics is the study of networks
Network theory
Network theory is an area of computer science and network science and part of graph theory. It has application in many disciplines including statistical physics, particle physics, computer science, biology, economics, operations research, and sociology...

 that change in time.
These networks could be from the fields of biology
Biology
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...

, sociology
Sociology
Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

, economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

, computer science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

, graph theory
Graph theory
In mathematics and computer science, graph theory is the study of graphs, mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects from a certain collection. A "graph" in this context refers to a collection of vertices or 'nodes' and a collection of edges that connect pairs of...

 etc.

For a dynamical systems approach to network dynamics, see sequential dynamical system
Sequential dynamical system
Sequential dynamical systems are a class of graph dynamical systems. They are discrete dynamical systems which generalize many aspects of for example classical cellular automata, and they provide a framework for studying asynchronous processes over graphs...

.

See also

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    Dynamic Network Analysis
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  • Metastability in the brain
    Metastability in the brain
    In the field of computational neuroscience, the theory of metastability refers to the human brain’s ability to integrate several functional parts and to produce neural oscillations in a cooperative and coordinated manner, providing the basis for conscious activity.Metastability, a state in which...

  • Neurodynamics
  • Gaussian network model
    Gaussian network model
    The Gaussian network model is a representation of a biological macromolecule as an elastic mass-and-spring network to study, understand, and characterize mechanical aspects of its long-scale dynamics...

  • Neural network
    Neural network
    The term neural network was traditionally used to refer to a network or circuit of biological neurons. The modern usage of the term often refers to artificial neural networks, which are composed of artificial neurons or nodes...

  • Cellular neural network
    Cellular neural network
    Cellular neural networks are a parallel computing paradigm similar to neural networks, with the difference that communication is allowed between neighbouring units only...

  • Small-world network
    Small-world network
    In mathematics, physics and sociology, a small-world network is a type of mathematical graph in which most nodes are not neighbors of one another, but most nodes can be reached from every other by a small number of hops or steps...

  • Network planning and design
    Network planning and design
    Network planning and design is an iterative process, encompassingtopological design, network-synthesis, and network-realization, and is aimed at ensuring that a new network or service meets the needs of the subscriber and operator....

  • Dynamic Bayesian network
    Dynamic Bayesian network
    A dynamic Bayesian network is a Bayesian network that represents sequences of variables. These sequences are often time-series or sequences of symbols . The hidden Markov model can be considered as a simple dynamic Bayesian network.- References :* , Zoubin Ghahramani, Lecture Notes In Computer...

  • Dynamic single-frequency networks
    Dynamic single-frequency networks
    Dynamic Single Frequency Networks is a transmitter macrodiversity technique for OFDM based cellular networks.DSFN is based on the idea of single frequency networks , which is a group of radio transmitters that send the same signal simultaneously over the same frequency...

  • Biological network inference
    Biological network inference
    Biological network inference is the process of making inferences and predictions about biological networks.-Biological networks:Many types of biological networks exist. Few such networks are known in anything approaching their complete structure, even in the simplest bacteria...

  • Technology Dynamics
    Technology Dynamics
    Technology dynamics is broad and relatively new scientific field that has been developed in the framework of the postwar science and technology studies field. It studies the process of technological change. Under the field of Technology Dynamics the process of technological change is explained by...

  • Source-sink dynamics
    Source-sink dynamics
    Source-sink dynamics is a theoretical model used by ecologists to describe how variation in habitat quality may affect the population growth or decline of organisms....

  • Social network analysis software
    Social network analysis software
    Social network analysis software facilitates quantitative or qualitative analysis of social networks, by describing features of a network, either through numerical or visual representation...

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