Complexities of social networks: A Physicist's perspective
arXiv:physics/0605072
Abstract
The review is a survey of the present status of research in social networks highlighting the topics of small world property, degree distributions, community structure, assortativity, modelling, dynamics and searching in social networks.
17 pages, an updated version will be published as a chapter in the book Econophysics and Sociophysics: Trends and perspectives, ed. B. K. Chakrabarti, A. Chakrabarti and A. Chatterjee, Wiley-VCH 2006