Network

:''For the acclaimed film about Television news, see Network (movie)''. A wide variety of systems of interconnected components are called networks. ==Specific types of network== ===Media=== * Radio networks, which create and distribute radio programming * Television networks, which create and distribute television programming ===Transport and infrastructure=== * Transport networks (roads, railroads, shipping routes and airlines) * Pipelines (gas, petroleum, water, sewage), * Electricity networks (electric power - electricity generation, electric power transmission and electric power distribution). ===Business=== * Financial networks, for applications such as funds transfer and credit card authorization. ===Electronics and data processing=== * Electric circuits - a network of electrical components. * Digital network - a coupled network of digital (binary) components, for combinational or sequential logic (state machine) implementation * Neural network ===Computer networks and telecommunications=== ''Note: A distinction is made between wide area networks, (WANs) and local area networks (LANs)'' * Computer networks, which transfer information between computers. (Specific configurations include star networks and grid networks.) *: The Internet is a large-scale computer network. Also, a website and the whole World Wide Web are networks of webpages, a link web. * Telecommunications networks ** Public switched telephone networks, which route audio signals from one telephone to another ===Human socialization=== * When people meet with each other either for socializing or for assistance, the practice is sometimes referred to as ''networking''. ** Social networks, business networks and entrepreneurial networks, are studied in sociology and economics ** The Old Boy Network is a term used when people with prior connections (typically school, college, work, fraternity or clubs) use their prior connections in this manner, or as an informal grapevine. * Sexual networks * Crime networks * Support networks, such as the samaritans or alcoholics anonymous * Espionage networks, in which controllers "run" agents in small groups. These groups then connect together, making larger networks. ===Mathematics=== In mathematics, a network is usually called a Graph (mathematics). To put it another way, network theory is the applied mathematics counterpart of graph theory. General-purpose mathematical models of network structures and associated algorithms have been developed in graph theory. Computer network routing is a direct application of graph theory to the real world. ===Other=== * Spatial networks (either urban networks or networks of rooms within buildings) are the subject of study for space syntax and various other urban theories. * Network externality in economics * Complex_network, for example Scale-free_network or Small-world_network == General information== Networks can be characterized in a number of different ways. For example, many networks are observed to be scale-free networks, in which a few network nodes act as "very connected" hubs. == Further reading == By network science: # Linked: The New Science of Networks, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Perseus Publishing, 2002. Hardcover Textbook. ISBN 0738206679. # Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks, Mark Buchanan, W. W. Norton, 2002, hardcover, 256 pages, ISBN 0393041530 # Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, Duncan J. Watts, W. W. Norton, February, 2003, Hardcover: 448 pages. ISBN 0393041425 Consumer studies using network science: # Tipping Point: How Little things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown, 2002, trade paperback, 304 pages, ISBN 0316346624 # Influentials: One American in Ten Tells the Other Nine How to Vote, Where to Eat, and What to Buy, Edward B. Keller, Jonathan L. Berry, Douglas B. Reeves, Free Press, 2003, paperback, ISBN 0743227301 # Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers, Alissa Quart, Perseus, 2002, hardcover, 256 pages, ISBN 0738206644 (bibliography derived from [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/25/arts/25WATT.html New York Times article, January 25, 2003 "Connect, They Say, Only Connect"]) simple:Network fa:Network nds:Nettwark

Network

:...a graph theory of interconnected nodes which form some sort of system. Many aspects of reality have a network structure thus identifying it as a basic process. Some characteristics of a network are evolutionary growth; some nodes called hub have many more connections to other nodes; and increased dependence on the integrity of hubs as compared to other nodes for the robustness of the network. Removed. This may be useful information, but I think it might be best located in a more specific article. In any case, I don't know how to make it fit in with the current revision. --User:Ryguasu 17:04 Dec 3, 2002 (UTC) Removal was unjustified. The information is from the developing sience of network theory or network science. See the extended bibliography and the cited NYT's article. We probably need articles on network science and on the genre of books being published as consumer studies. User:Fred Bauder 12:58 Jan 25, 2003 (UTC)

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