Some Topics on Social Network Theory and Analysis

Research on complex networks has tightly relation with social network analysis.In fact,the fast growth of network science in the past decade is fertilized by the basic concepts and methods established by social network analysis.Meanwhile,social network analysis is also helped by the network science.This paper has briefly reviewed some of recent progress in the related topics done by our groups.The topics include cooperation-competition networks,the definition,detecting methods and index of significance of community structures,spatial structure of social networks and their consequence on the structure and dynamics of networks.