collaboration network exhibits strong 'Matthew Effects', which can be attributed to the path-dependent nature of knowledge … science from the perspective of the connectivity of its major cities in interurban scientific collaboration networks. We … construct collaboration networks between 526 major cities (including 44 Chinese cities) for 2002-2006 and 2014-2018 based on co …

This dissertation is a study of scientific collaboration at the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), a modern …, multi-disciplinary, distributed laboratory involved in sensor network research. By use of survey research and network … arrangements of CENS. Findings indicate that CENS collaboration networks have fluid, non-cliquish, small-world topologies, and are …

, that affect achievement of their epistemic goals. Here we analyze a network epistemology model in which agents, all else … possible outcomes, including stable polarization in belief and action. The model results are sensitive to network structure. In …