Computational and Information Sciences Directorate Research Areas

Network Science

Advisor: A. Swami (ananthram.swami.civ@mail.mil)
Adelphi, Maryland

Key words: Network science, Network theory, Communications networks, Information networks, Social-cognitive networks, Command and control networks

Challenging research opportunities exist in network science.  The exceptional importance of networks transpired in the last 20 years, with powerful phenomena like Internet and irregular warfare.  Network Science is the youngest of recognized sciences.  Research is needed to develop a fundamental understanding of the interplay and common underlying science among social/cognitive, information, and communications networks and to determine how processes and parameters in one network affect and are affected by those in other networks.  Also needed is research to predict and control individual and composite behavior of these complex interacting networks.