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Duncan Watts is currently exploring the "role that network structure plays in determining or constraining system behavior, focussing on a few broad problem areas in social science such as information contagion, financial risk management, and organizational design." {{fn|1}} | ||
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Duncan J. Watts is an associate professor of sociology at Columbia University, head of the CDG Collective Dynamics Group and author of the book Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (Norton, 2003). He holds B.Sc in physics from the University of New South Wales, and a Ph.D. in theoretical and applied mechanics from Cornell University. In 1998, in conjunction with Steven Strogatz of Cornell University, Watts formalized the small world phenomenon in a celebrated Nature paper (393:440 - 442). Watts is also affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute.
Academic Inquiry
Duncan Watts is currently exploring the "role that network structure plays in determining or constraining system behavior, focussing on a few broad problem areas in social science such as information contagion, financial risk management, and organizational design." Template:Fn
Selected Publications
D. J. Watts, P. S. Dodds, R. Muhamad, and D. Medina. Multiscale, recurrent epidemics in a hierarchical compartment model, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(32), 11157-11162 (2005)
D. J. Watts. The “new” science of networks. Annual Review of Sociology, 30, 243-270 (2004).
P. S. Dodds and D. J. Watts. Universal behavior in a generalized model of contagion. Physical Review Letters, 92(21), 218701 (2004).
P. S. Dodds, R. Muhamad, and D. J. Watts. An experimental study of search in global social networks. Science, 301, 827-829 (2003).
D. J. Watts, P. S. Dodds, and M. E. J. Newman. Identity and search in social networks. Science, 296, 1302-1305 (2002).
D. J. Watts. A simple model of global cascades on random networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 99, 5766-5771 (2002).
D. J. Watts. Networks, dynamics and the small world phenomenon, American Journal of Sociology, 105(2):493-527 (1999).
D. J. Watts and S. H. Strogatz. Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks, Nature, 393:440-442 (1998)
Notes
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