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Detecting hierarchical and overlapping network communities using locally optimal modularity changes
Michael J. Barber
Agglomerative clustering is a well established strategy for identifying communities in networks. Communities are successively merged into larger communities, coarsening a network o…
NetzCope: A Tool for Displaying and Analyzing Complex Networks
Michael J. Barber, Ludwig Streit, Oleg Strogan
Networks are a natural and popular mechanism for the representation and investigation of a broad class of systems. But extracting information from a network can present significant…
Distinct spatial characteristics of industrial and public research collaborations: Evidence from the 5th EU Framework Programme
Thomas Scherngell, Michael J. Barber
This study compares the spatial characteristics of industrial R&D networks to those of public research R&D networks (i.e. universities and research organisations). The objective is…
Spatial Interaction Modelling of Cross-Region R&D Collaborations: Empirical Evidence from the 5th EU Framework Programme
Thomas Scherngell, Michael J. Barber
The last few years have witnessed an increasing interest in the geography of innovation. As noted by Autant-Bernard et al. (2007a), the geographical dimension of innovation deserve…
Spatial Interaction Modelling of Cross-Region R&D Collaborations Empirical Evidence from the EU Framework Programmes
Thomas Scherngell, Michael Barber
The focus of this study is on cross-region R&D collaboration networks in the EU Framework Programmes (FP's). In contrast to most other empirical studies in this field, we shift att…
Analyzing and modeling European R&D collaborations: Challenges and opportunities from a large social network
Michael J. Barber, Manfred Paier, Thomas Scherngell
Networks have attracted a burst of attention in the last decade, with applications to natural, social, and technological systems. While networks provide a powerful abstraction for…