Talk:Douglas R. White

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[edit] To much details

The article in it's current state has too many details and too little encyclopedic text. The list of articles for example is not accepatable. That is why I removed it. -- Mdd (talk) 21:21, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Selected journal articles

• "Generative Model for Feedback Networks" in Physical Review E, 016119 (2006) (8 pages), with Nataša Kejžar, Constantino Tsallis, J. Doyne Farmer, Scott D. White (see summary in Social-circles network model). The implications of this type of model are carried further in Thurner, Kyriakopoulos and Tsallis, 2007, Unified Model for Network Dynamics Exhibiting Nonextensive Statistics Phys. Rev. E 76, 036111 (2007) (8 pages).
• "Network Dynamics and Field Evolution: The Growth of Interorganizational Collaboration in the Life Sciences" in the American Journal of Sociology (2005, Powell, White, Koput and Owen-Smith)
• “Ring Cohesion in Marriage and Social Networks” in Mathematiques et sciences humaines (2004)
• "The Navigability of Strong Ties: Small Worlds, Tie Strength and Network Topology" journal Complexity (2002, with Michael Houseman)
• "Controlled Simulation of Marriage Systems" in the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (1999)
• "Class, Property and Structural Endogamy: Visualizing Networked Histories" in Theory and Society (1997, with Lilyan A. Brudner)
• "Structure and Dynamics of the Global Economy: Network Analysis of International Trade 1965-1980" in Social Forces (1992, with David Smith)
• Graph and Semigroup Homomorphisms in Social Networks (1983, with Karl Reitz)
• Standard Cross-Cultural Sample in the 1969 journal Ethnology (with George P. Murdock, 2006 on-line edition reprinted with new annotations).

Selected articles in edited volumes

• Douglas R. White, Nataša Kejžar, and Laurent Tambayong. 2007. Discovering Oscillatory Dynamics of City-Size Distributions in World Historical Systems. Globalization as an Evolutionary Process: Modeling Global Change. Ed. by George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas, and William R. Thompson. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415773614

I removed part of the article as said above. -- Mdd (talk) 19:33, 8 February 2008 (UTC)