Table 1 Catalog of network process properties that determine the way an entity uses the network structure. The first two properties, transmission mechanism and trajectory type, were proposed by Borgatti (2005)
Dimension | Possible values |
|---|---|
Transmission mechanism (Borgatti 2005) | transfer |
serial duplication | |
parallel duplication | |
Trajectory type (Borgatti 2005) | shortest paths |
paths | |
trails | |
walks | |
Target to reach | same target for all entities |
individual targets | |
no target | |
Routing mechanism | local routing by node |
local routing by process | |
global routing | |
Adopting | forwarding |
adoption: simple contagion | |
adoption: complex contagion | |
Interaction network and process | no interaction |
process shapes network | |
Place of process | on nodes |
on edges |