Network science
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Committee on Network Science for Future Army Applications, National Research Council. 2005 Network science National Academies Press
This term has been appropriated by the U.S. Military and military applications by network researchers which are not promoted at this site. It is important to know about this form of conflict, however, and its implications. To see a military advisor's view of network warfare see the U-tube interview with John Arquilla and consult his various book-length publications.
Wikipedia:Network science was not invented by the American military nor their network researchers at CMU, Duke, or elsewhere, as the wikipedia site had said before I edited it. For a review of the history of interdisciplinary social network sciences see the 2005 review of : The Development of Social Network Analysis: A Study in the Sociology of Science, by L.C. Freeman by Charles Kadushin; and the Festschrift for Linton C. Freeman: Introduction. Social Networks 24(4):311-314.
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The many "military intelligence" sites now funded often use the term "Network science" as if there is a unitary and new science in the making contributed by military funding (U.S.A., Australia, etc.).
"Network sciences" is a term more often found in use by groups of scientists or social scientists who have long been at work in scientific development of these fields without military funding.
