TY - GEN
T1 - Multilevel Network Reification: Representing Higher Order Adaptivity in a Network
AU - Treur, Jan
PY - 2018/12/11
Y1 - 2018/12/11
N2 - In this paper it is shown how a network can be extended by adding explicit states representing the characteristics defining the structure of the network. Adding such states provides what is called network reification, which can be used to explitly represent network adaptation principles. But also the adaptivity principles may change, based on second-order adaptivity of the network. By another reification step applied to the reified network, also the characteristics of such second-order adaptivity are explicitly represented, thus obtaining multilevel network reification. The construction of multilevel reification introduced here enables representation within a network not only of first-order adaptation principles, but also of second-order adaptation principles expressing change of first-order adaptation principles. The approach is illustrated for an adaptive Social Network involving an adaptive adaptation principle from Social Science based on homophily, by which connections are changing by a first-order adaptation principle which changes over time by a second-order adaptation principle.
AB - In this paper it is shown how a network can be extended by adding explicit states representing the characteristics defining the structure of the network. Adding such states provides what is called network reification, which can be used to explitly represent network adaptation principles. But also the adaptivity principles may change, based on second-order adaptivity of the network. By another reification step applied to the reified network, also the characteristics of such second-order adaptivity are explicitly represented, thus obtaining multilevel network reification. The construction of multilevel reification introduced here enables representation within a network not only of first-order adaptation principles, but also of second-order adaptation principles expressing change of first-order adaptation principles. The approach is illustrated for an adaptive Social Network involving an adaptive adaptation principle from Social Science based on homophily, by which connections are changing by a first-order adaptation principle which changes over time by a second-order adaptation principle.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-05411-3_51
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-05411-3_51
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85059094486
SN - 9783030054106
VL - 1
T3 - Studies in Computational Intelligence
SP - 635
EP - 651
BT - Complex Networks and Their Applications VII
A2 - Aiello, Luca Maria
A2 - Cherifi, Chantal
A2 - Cherifi, Hocine
A2 - Lambiotte, Renaud
A2 - Lió, Pietro
A2 - Rocha, Luis M.
PB - Springer
T2 - 7th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, COMPLEX NETWORKS 2018
Y2 - 11 December 2018 through 13 December 2018
ER -