Networks
Network Theory
Network Theory is analyzing Networks; modeling. It is based upon Graph Theory. It gives us a verbal technology in the form of a standard language, to describe the structures and properties of networks. What are the features and individual components (Nodes, Links, Edges, Connectors,) of interest?
One thing we might ask about any individual node is how central is it within the overall network?
Network Immuno-Systems
Such sophistications are likely to be symbiotic, synthetic, and bio-sympathetic; benefiting multiple allied systems either concurrently or on a cyclic basis.
In CAS (Complex Adaptive Systems) Networks, we will begin to uncover implicit and emergent Immuno-Systems, as we develop the tools sophisticated enough to look for them. No Living System is just wide-open and Adaptive at the same time.
Already we can discern overall network security emerging from the component Small Group Networks that combine to constitute the Network Distribution Collage, in such forms as Memes,
Administration, Social Awareness, and Cyber Security software. Framed in this way, we can readily accept the major influence of Diplomatic Egregors and Combinatorial Panpsychisms vis-a-vis Design-Mind, in our very near Future.
You will definitely want to consolidate the compound security and adaptive flexibility afforded by these Assemblaged Distributions, as well as providing for their further learning and evolutionary advancement.
Parallel Systems
Network Structure
One thing we might ask about any individual node is how central is it within the overall network?
Structure:
- Local
- Global
- Both of which affect (or feedback) to each other
Network Features
Network Features:
- How are they connected? Are all parts connected?
- Are other parts disconnected (or partially isolated)?
- What is the density of connections? (strangers vs. friends).
- What are the patterns of clustering? (many small clusters? Just a few large clusters?)
What happens if we change a parameter of any property?
What are the connection possibilities
Network Structural Types
Identification of Structural Types:
- Random Network:
- Most networks in Nature are non-random
- Defined by constraints (rules) of the system.
- Designed
- Some networks are purposely designed from a top-down perspective (for example a computer network designed by a network administrator)
- Not-designed
- Emergent; from local level rules and interactions
- Examples: markets, logistics, friendships, terrorist organizations, food web
A Few Words About Network Theory
Networks in Nature are not usually Random: clusters of Actors are connected to a few key Agents (hubs). This is called a Small World Network where everyone is distributed via just a few steps (6 degrees of separation). For example: power grids, airline routes, internet servers.
- Small world networks maximize connectivity
- While minimizing the number of connections (the ‘sphere’ of network ‘volume’)
- Enabling resources to travel through the network more efficiently
- This pattern appears spontaneously in Nature with frequency (examples: rivers, food webs in ecosystems, inside our living bodies)
The Connectome (in the brain) needs efficient regional connections and makes use of affordable efficiencies via of small world patterns. Children’s brains begin with a random pattern (with many more connections) but with experience, connections are lost and pruned as efficiency progresses –yet brain disorders reveal a big-world pattern.
Does Consciousness itself emerge from small-world architecture?
Small world patterns are like the Bell Shaped Curve, or Fibonacci series: emerging in Nature constantly and revealing the math and physics underlying Nature –a signal that the gears of the universe (cf. Iesod) are churning away and connecting our small world to the mechanics of the Cosmos.
Reading Section
Hubs, Links, Nodes
The Effect of Topology impacts network density (the ease with which any two nodes connect) which can result in:
- Reduced barriers (to connectivity)
- Greater Integration
- The type of clustering
All of which are defined by or affected by the structural topology.
Network Design
Network Topography
…encompasses the Ring network, the Mesh network, the Star network, the Fully Connected network, the Tree network, the Linear network, and the Bus (or Serial Bus) network. All these have different features and properties.
Map of the Terrain
Diffusion: how something will spread or travel across the network.
- Spread of Disease
- Interdiction (containment)
- Robust
- Fragile
- How susceptible is the network to failure from
- Random attack
- Strategic attack
- How susceptible is the network to failure from
Information Superhighway
Transfers & Exchanges
Network Dynamics:
- Coherence
- Decay
- Liminality
These determine the Life Cycle of the Network
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Inter-Dimensional Stacks
Charms & Chiralities
Diffusion: how something will spread or travel across the network.
- Spread of Disease
- Interdiction (containment)
- Robust
- Fragile
- How susceptible is the network to failure from
- Random attack
- How susceptible is the network to failure from
Strategic attack
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In The Noosphere
Scale relates to the number of nodes:
- Small world (like we find in Rural Communities). And
- Large World (like we find in Urban Communities).
Clustering refers to subsystems within a Network. This is represented by some common set of properties forming subsets within Networks.
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Global Structure
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Double Hermeneutics
Satellite Geometrics
Global Structure
Upon maturity of a Network, a Global Structure will emerge that Feeds Back to affect the elements of a system. We can then study its Topology to better understand that Network System. Macro-scale Topology is shared by the primary features that compose a Network.
Networks are drawn (depicted, graphed) as if the outer nodes are the ends of a spindle. But never forget that networks take place within a context (or within an environment), which is also affected by the network and the connections within it. There is a double-hermeneutic feedback. So the outer nodes on the spindle are not isolated (they are not ‘outer). Also consider Revolving Networks that are constantly interacting with each other within that/those (Revolving) environment(s) (of Spherical Q). Networks are Alive.
Constructal Law
Constructal Infonomic Theory
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Network Dynamics
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Nodes that Fire Together Wire Together
Dynamic Systems
Dynamic Systems are difficult to predict with any exactitude (just like the weather) but they can be successfully modeled
Networked Systems
The mathematics of conjunctions (known as 'nexus') makes it unlikely that any member will be greater than 6 connections away.
Human Brain
Possibly the most Complex of the Dynamic Adaptive Systems is the Human Brain; able to self organize & evolve under changing conditions.
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ASU: Social Theory
1985
Lenoir-Rhyne: Educational Research
1990's
Mecklenburg County Mental Health:
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Academy of Performing Arts:
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