Hanghang Tong Livres

Focusing on network connectivity, this book explores its significance across various applications, including social networks and infrastructure design. It introduces a unified model for connectivity measures, enhancing understanding of their commonalities. The authors tackle connectivity computation with innovative tracking problems and inference frameworks, while also addressing theoretical aspects of connectivity optimization and proposing an effective approximation framework. Additionally, it highlights emerging research directions, making it a valuable resource for advanced students and professionals in related fields.

This comprehensive review for researchers and practitioners in data mining and social networks surveys recent progress in team science. Focusing on underlying network structures, it presents models and algorithms for characterizing, predicting, optimizing, and explaining team performance, plus key applications, open challenges, and future trends.