Beyond networks: Aligning qualitative and computational science studies

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology Aligning Biomedical Ontologies

Beyond Networks in Structural Theories of Exchange: Promises from Computational Social Science

Purpose The research community currently employs four very different versions of the social network concept: A social network is seen as a set of socially constructed role relations (e.g., friends, business partners), a set of interpersonal sentiments (e.g., liking, trust), a pattern of behavioral social interaction (e.g., conversations, citations), or an opportunity structure for exchange. Res...

Computational science and pathological science

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Aligning psychological assessment with psychological science.

Network analysis is a promising step forward in efforts to align psychological assessment with explanatory theory in psychological science. The implications of Cramer et al.'s analysis are quite general. Networks analysis may illuminate functional relations not only among observable behaviors that comprise psychological disorders, but among cognitive and affective processes that causally contri...

Aligning dynamic networks with DynaWAVE.

Motivation Network alignment (NA) aims to find similar (conserved) regions between networks, such as cellular networks of different species. Until recently, existing methods were limited to aligning static networks. However, real-world systems, including cellular functioning, are dynamic. Hence, in our previous work, we introduced the first ever dynamic NA method, DynaMAGNA ++, which improved u...