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 |
| Â | serial duplication |
| Â | parallel duplication |
Trajectory type (Borgatti 2005) | shortest paths |
| Â | paths |
| Â | trails |
| Â | walks |
Target to reach | same target for all entities |
| Â | individual targets |
| Â | no target |
Routing mechanism | local routing by node |
| Â | local routing by process |
| Â | global routing |
Adopting | forwarding |
| Â | adoption: simple contagion |
| Â | adoption: complex contagion |
Interaction network and process | no interaction |
| Â | process shapes network |
Place of process | on nodes |
| Â | on edges |