Network Dynamics

Dynamic ideas have been pursued in much of Social Network Analysis. Network dynamics is important for domains ranging from friendship networks (e.g., Pearson and West, 2003; Burk, et al., 2007) to, for example, inter-organizational networks (see the review articles Borgatti and Foster, 2003; Brass et al., 2004). However, formal models of analysis, both in the tradition of discrete mathematics and in the tradition of statistical inference, have for a long time focused mainly on single (i.e., cross-sectional) methods of analysis.