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Networks in Geography

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Actor–network theory; Network models; Network science; Small-world networks; Spatial networks

Glossary

Tobler’s First Law of Geography :

Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things

Nework Science :

The study of network representations of physical, biological, and social phenomena leading to predictive models of these phenomena

Spatial Network :

Any network in which the nodes are located in a space equipped with a metric

Small-World Network :

A special type of network in which most nodes are not neighbors of one another, but they can be reached from every other by a small number of hops or steps

Actor–Network Theory (ANT) :

An approach to social theory and research, originating in the field of science studies, which treats objects as part of social networks

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Tobler’s first law of geography has generalized a fundamental fact in geographic studies: everything is related to everything else, but near things are more...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Daniel Sui & Bo Zhao

  2. Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    Zengwang Xu

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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Sui, D., Xu, Z., Zhao, B. (2014). Networks in Geography. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_77

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