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Applied Network Science

Table 1 Examples of observational data used to study walk processes on networks

From: Trajectories through temporal networks

 

Implicit

Explicit

Network

Network data

Path data

Transit network

Transit routes

Internet connections

traceroute output

Hyperlink network

Web crawler output

Football passing network

Hypothetical plays

Payment networks

Hypothetical flows

Process

Event data

Trajectory data

Vessel manifests

Travel itineraries

Router-based logs

Packet-based logs

Hyperlink clicks

User click-streams

Football match events

Passing sequences

Transaction records

Flows of money

  1. Listed processes are: travellers in transit, packets routed over the internet, users surfing the web via hyperlinks, football players passing a ball, and transactions within a payment system. The examples are organized to reflect how data can be collected (about the walk process itself or about the network over which it plays out) and that the structure of the data may or may not explicitly incorporate the integrity and bounds of the walk process
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