Multilevel Network Reification: Representing Higher Order Adaptivity in a Network

Jan Treur*

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Abstract

Network reification occurs when a base network is extended by adding explicit states representing the characteristics defining the structure of the base network. This can be used to explicitly represent network adaptation principles within a network. The adaptation principles may change as well, based on second-order adaptation principles of the network. By reification of the reified network, also such second-order adaptation principles can be explicitly represented. This multilevel network reification construction is introduced and illustrated in the current paper. The illustration focuses on an adaptive adaptation principle from Social Science for bonding based on homophily; here connections are changing by a first-order adaptation principle which itself changes over time by a second-order adaptation principle.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComplex Networks and Their Applications VII
Subtitle of host publicationVolume 1 Proceedings The 7th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications COMPLEX NETWORKS 2018
EditorsLuca Maria Aiello, Chantal Cherifi, Hocine Cherifi, Renaud Lambiotte, Pietro Lió, Luis M. Rocha
PublisherSpringer
Pages635-651
Number of pages17
Volume1
ISBN (Electronic)9783030054113
ISBN (Print)9783030054106
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Event7th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, COMPLEX NETWORKS 2018 - Cambridge, United Kingdom
Duration: 11 Dec 201813 Dec 2018

Publication series

NameStudies in Computational Intelligence
PublisherSpringer
Volume812
ISSN (Print)1860-949X

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, COMPLEX NETWORKS 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityCambridge
Period11/12/1813/12/18

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