Challenges in Social Network Research

Introduction. - Synchronization costs in dynamics of multilevel networks.- Socio-cultural Cognitive Mapping to Identify Communities and Latent Networks.-  Bootstrapping the Gini Index of the Network Degree: An Application for Italian Corporate Governance.- Association rule and network analysis for exploring comorbidity patterns in health system.- A mixture model approach for clustering bipartite networks.- Big data and Social Network Analysis: foundations, perspectives and applications in Economic History.- Networks and Context: Algorithmic Challenges for Context-Aware Social Network Research.- Unraveling Innovation Networks in Conservation Agriculture using Social Network Analysis.- Mapping the informal organization through the urban activism: the case of self-organized spaces in the city of Naples.- The paths of the Italian young poets. A Social Network Analysis of the contemporary poetic field.- A data-driven method to forma DEA-based network.- Multilayer network analysis of innovation intermediaries' activities.- Inter-Organizational Networks and Third Sector: Emerging Features from two Case-Studies in Southern Italy.