Socio-Technical Networks: Science and Engineering Design

ISBN-13: 9781439809808 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 412 str.

Fei Hu;Ali Mostashari;Jiang Xie

Opis

While there are sporadic journal articles on socio-technical networks, there's long been a need for an integrated resource that addresses concrete socio-technical network (STN) design issues from algorithmic and engineering perspectives. Filling this need, Socio-Technical Networks: Science and Engineering Design provides a complete introduction to the fundamentals of one of the hottest research areas across the social sciences, networking, and computer science -- including its definition, historical background, and models. Covering basic STN architecture from a physical/technological perspective, the book considers the system design process in a typical STN, including inputs, processes/actions, and outputs/products. It covers current applications, including transportation networks, energy systems, tele-healthcare, financial networks, and the World Wide Web. A group of STN expert contributors addresses privacy and security topics in the interdependent context of critical infrastructure, which include risk models, trust models, and privacy preserving schemes. * Covers the physical and technological designs in a typical STN * Considers STN applications in popular fields, such as healthcare and the virtual community * Details a method for mapping and measuring complexity, uncertainty, and interactions among STN components The book examines the most important STN models, including graph theory, inferring agent dynamics, decision theory, and information mining. It also explains structural studies, behavioral studies, and agent/actor system studies and policy studies in different STN contexts. Complete with in-depth case studies, this book supplies the practical insight needed to address contemporary STN design issues.

While there are some sporadic journal articles on socio-technical networks, readers need an integrated resource discussing the STN design. This book provides a complete introduction to the fundamentals of socio-technical networks, including its definition, historical background, and significance. The authors provide basic network architecture from the OSI model perspective and address some challenging design issues. The text also covers all major network protocol design in a typical STN and the application of wireless networks such as sensor networks, WiMAX, etc. in STN access. The book presents STN case studies from healthcare, virtual communities

Spis treści

Sociotechnical Systems: A Conceptual Introduction. Systems-Level Modeling of Sociotechnical Systems. Dynamic Models and Analysis for Information Propagation in Online Social Networks. Analyzing Sociotechnical Networks: A Spectrum Perspective. Sociotechnical Network Models: A Review. Understanding Interactions among BitTorrent Peers. Sociotechnical Environments and Assistive Technology Abandonment. A Sociotechnical Collaborative Negotiation Approach to Support Group Decisions for Engineering Design. Risk Analysis in Sociotechnical System. Privacy Support in Cloud-Computing Based Sociotechnical Networks. Trust Models in Cloud-Computing-Based Sociotechnical Networks. Networking Protocols in Sociotechnical Networks. Design Tools of Sociotechnical Networks. Sociotechnical Networks for Healthcare Applications. Collaborative Software Development based on Social Technical Networks. Virtual Communities Based on Sociotechnical Systems.