"This book explores the latest innovations in software-defined networking and network functions virtualization. It provides methods on how to improve understanding of the strategic role of trust at different levels of the information and knowledge society, trust at the level of the global...

In this paper we test the celebrated `Strength of weak ties' theory of Granovetter (1973). We test two hypotheses on the network structure in a data set of collaborating economists. While we find support for the hypothesis of transitivity of strong ties, we reject the hypothesis that weak ties...