Network Analysis Work by Anthony Dekker

Recent publications on Organisational Network Analysis and Network Science are listed below. This work is part of the CAVALIER (Communication and Activity VisuALIsation for the EnteRprise) project. The aim of this project is to develop a capability to analyse, visualise, document, and improve organisational and network structures. The work falls in four main categories: social network analysis, the FINC methodology, organisational structures and decision-making, and Project Leonhard which looks at more general network science applications:

Social Network Analysis

• Dekker, A.H. Deriving Agent-Based Simulation Models from Textual Data. In Anderssen, R.S., R.D. Braddock and L.T.H. Newham (eds) 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand and International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, July 2009, pp 2936–2941, ISBN: 978-0-9758400-7-8. PDF file available.
  • The simulation described in this paper is available online.
• Dekker, A.H. Centrality in Social Networks: Theoretical and Simulation Approaches. Proceedings of SimTecT 2008, pp 33–38, ISBN: 0-9775257-4-0, Simulation Industry Association of Australia, 12–15 May, Melbourne, Australia. PDF file available.
• Dekker, A.H. Realistic Social Networks for Simulation using Network Rewiring. In Oxley, L. and Kulasiri, D. (eds) MODSIM 2007 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2007, pp. 677-683. ISBN : 978-0-9758400-4-7. PDF file available.
• Dekker, A.H. The Eurovision Song Contest as a Friendship Network, Connections, the official journal of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, vol. 27, no. 3, 2007, pp 53–60. The paper is available electronically as a PDF file available in the electronic version of the journal.
• Dekker, A.H. Conceptual Distance in Social Network Analysis. Journal of Social Structure, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2005. Online HTML.
• Dekker, A.H. A Category-Theoretic Approach to Social Network Analysis. Proceedings of Computing: The Australasian Theory Symposium (CATS) 2002, Melbourne, Australia, 28 Jan to 1 Feb 2002. PDF file available in Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science Vol 61.
• Dekker, A.H. Visualisation of Social Networks using CAVALIER. Proceedings of InVis.AU, the Australian Symposium on Information Visualisation, Sydney, Australia, 3-4 December 2001. PDF file available in Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol 9.
• Dekker, A.H. Social Network Analysis in Military Headquarters using CAVALIER. Proceedings of 5th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT, Australia, 24-26 October 2000. PDF file available in electronic proceedings.

Organisational Structures and Decision-Making

• Dekker, A.H. Evidence-Based C2 Metrics: A Survey. Proceedings of 14th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, Washington, DC, June 2009. PDF file and and slides available.
• Dekker, A.H. Experiments in Planning and the “ISLAND MISSION” Game. Proceedings of SimTecT 2008, pp 27–32, ISBN: 0-9775257-4-0, Simulation Industry Association of Australia, 12–15 May, Melbourne, Australia. PDF file available.
• Dekker, A.H. Studying Multi-Agency Planning Using Team Games. Proceedings of SimTecT 2007, pp 451-454, ISBN: 0-9775257-2-4, Simulation Industry Association of Australia, 4–7 June, Brisbane, Australia, PDF file available.
• Dekker, A.H. Revisiting “SCUDHunt” and the Human Dimension of NCW, in 11th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, Cambridge, September 2006. PDF file and slides available.
• Dekker, A.H. Measuring The Agility Of Networked Military Forces. In Journal of Battlefield Technology, Volume 9, Number 1, March 2006, pages 19-24. PDF file available.
• Dekker, A.H. A Taxonomy of Network Centric Warfare Architectures. In SETE 2005 – Systems Engineering / Test and Evaluation Conference, Brisbane, Australia, November 2005 (awarded Best Paper in Systems Engineering). PDF file available.
• Dekker, A.H. Centralisation and Decentralisation in Network Centric Warfare. In Journal of Battlefield Technology, Volume 6, Number 2, July 2003, pages 23-28. PDF file available.

Agent-Based Organisational Simulation

• Dekker, A.H. Deriving Agent-Based Simulation Models from Textual Data. In Anderssen, R.S., R.D. Braddock and L.T.H. Newham (eds) 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand and International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, July 2009, pp 2936–2941, ISBN: 978-0-9758400-7-8. PDF file available.
  • The simulation described in this paper is available online.
• Dekker, A.H. Studying Organisational Topology with Simple Computational Models. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, vol. 10, no. 4, 2007, available electronically.
  • Additional information for this paper is available.
• Dekker, A.H. Using Tree Rewiring to Study “Edge” Organisations for C2. Proceedings of SimTecT 2007, pp 83-88, ISBN: 0-9775257-2-4, Simulation Industry Association of Australia, 4–7 June, Brisbane, Australia, PDF file available.
• de Silva, L., Dekker, A.H., and Harland, J. Planning with Time Limits in BDI Agent Programming Languages, in Proc. Thirteenth Computing: The Australasian Theory Symposium (CATS2007), Ballarat, Australia. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, vol 65, Gudmundsson, J. and Jay, B., Eds., ACS. pp 131-139. PDF file available.
• Dekker, A.H. and de Silva, L. Investigating Organisational Structures with Networks of Planning Agents, in International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce (IAWTIC06), Sydney, Australia, 29 Nov - 1 Dec 2006. PDF file available.
• Dekker, A.H. Centralisation vs Self-Synchronisation: An Agent-Based Investigation, in 11th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, Cambridge, September 2006. PDF file and slides available.
• Dekker, A.H. Agility in Networked Military Systems: A Simulation Experiment, in 11th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, Cambridge, September 2006. PDF file and slides available.
• Dekker, A.H. Network Topology and Military Performance. In Zerger, A. and Argent, R.M. (eds), MODSIM 2005 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2005, pp 2174-2180, ISBN: 0-9758400-2-9. PDF file available.
  • The above paper refers to the paper “The structural phase transition among fixed cardinal networks” by Yuumi Kawachi et al.
• Dekker, A.H. Using Agent-Based Modelling to Study Organisational Performance and Cultural Differences. Proceedings of the MODSIM 2003 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Townsville, Queensland, July 2003, Volume 4, pages 1793-1798. PDF file available.
• Dekker, A.H. Agent-Based Modelling And Organisational Structure. The First Lake Arrowhead Conference On Computational Social Science And Social Complexity: Agent-Based Modeling In The Social Sciences, May 9-12, 2002. Abstract available.

The FINC Methodology

• Citations of the FINC methodology include these from CCRP, and these and these from Google Scholar.
• Dekker, A.H. C4ISR, The FINC Methodology, and Operations in Urban Terrain. In Journal of Battlefield Technology, Volume 8, Number 1, March 2005, pages 25-28. PDF file available.
• Dekker, A.H. Simulating Network Robustness: Two Perspectives on Reality. Proceedings of SimTecT 2004, pp 125–130, ISBN: 0-9578879-3-0, 24-27 May 2004, National Convention Centre, Canberra, Australia. PDF file available.
• Dekker, A.H. Applying the FINC Methodology to the Land Environment. DSTO report DSTO-GD-0341, 2002. HTML version available.
• Dekker, A.H. C4ISR Architectures, Social Network Analysis and the FINC Methodology: An Experiment in Military Organisational Structure. DSTO report DSTO-GD-0313, Jan 2002. HTML version available.
• Dekker, A.H. Applying Social Network Analysis Concepts to Military C4ISR Architectures. Connections, the official journal of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, vol. 24, no. 3, 2001, pp 93–103. The paper is available electronically as a PDF file available in the electronic version of the journal.

Complex Systems Perspectives

• Dekker, A.H. Adaptivity in Networked Complex Systems. Proceedings of Systems Engineering/Test and Evaluation (SETE) 2008. PDF file available.
• Dekker, A.H. Can Complex Systems Be Engineered? Lessons from Life. Proceedings of Systems Engineering/Test and Evaluation (SETE) 2007. PDF file available.
  • This paper was reprinted in the Systems Engineering Society of Australia Newsletter, No. 45, March 2008.
• Dekker, A.H. and Colbert, B. Scale-Free Networks and Robustness of Critical Infrastructure Networks. Proceedings of the 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Complex Systems, 6-10 December 2004, Cairns, Australia, pp 685-699. PDF file available.
  • This paper also appeared in the electronic journal Complexity International, Volume 12, Paper ID: msid04, 2008.
• Dekker, A.H. Network Farming for the Analysis of Complex Network Systems. Proceedings of Complex Adaptive Systems in Defence Workshop, 22-23 July 2004, Adelaide University, Adelaide, Australia. Extended Abstract (PDF) available.

Project Leonhard

• Dekker, A.H. Average Distance as a Predictor of Synchronisability in Networks of Coupled Oscillators. Proceedings of ACSC 2010, the 33rd Australasian Computer Science Conference (CRPIT: Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 102), pp 127-131, 18-21 January 2010, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. PDF file available.
  • Additional information for this paper is available.
• Dekker, A.H. and Skvortsov, A.T. Topological Issues in Sensor Networks. In Anderssen, R.S., R.D. Braddock and L.T.H. Newham (eds) 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand and International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, July 2009, pp 952–958, ISBN: 978-0-9758400-7-8. PDF file available.
• Dekker, A.H. Network Effects in Epidemiology. Proceedings of SimTecT 2008, pp 39–44, ISBN: 0-9775257-4-0, Simulation Industry Association of Australia, 12–15 May, Melbourne, Australia (awarded best paper). PDF file available.
  • This paper was also presented at the “Best from Around the Globe” session of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference in Orlando, Florida in December 2009.
• Dekker, A.H. Network Topology and Military Performance. In Zerger, A. and Argent, R.M. (eds), MODSIM 2005 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2005, pp 2174-2180, ISBN: 0-9758400-2-9. PDF file available.
  • The above paper refers to the paper “The structural phase transition among fixed cardinal networks” by Yuumi Kawachi et al.
• Dekker, A.H. and Colbert B. Network Robustness for Critical Infrastructure Networks. In Applications of Information Systems to Homeland Security and Defense, Hussein Abbass and Daryl Essam, eds., Idea Group Inc., 2005, and reprinted here.
• Dekker, A.H. Simulating Network Robustness for Critical Infrastructure Networks. Proceedings of 28th Australasian Computer Science Conference, Newcastle, Australia, January 2005. PDF file available in Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol 38.
• Dekker, A.H. and Colbert, B. The Symmetry Ratio of a Network. Proceedings of Computing: The Australasian Theory Symposium (CATS2005), Newcastle, Australia, January 2005. PDF file available in Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol 41.
• Dekker, A.H. Simulating Network Robustness: Two Perspectives on Reality. Proceedings of SimTecT 2004, 24-27 May 2004, National Convention Centre, Canberra, Australia. PDF file available.
• Dekker, A.H. and Colbert, B. Network Robustness and Graph Topology. Proceedings of ACSC04, the 27th Australasian Computer Science Conference, 18-22 January 2004, Dunedin, New Zealand. PDF file available in Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol 26.

Please email me for information on any of these publications.

For more information about Organisational Network Analysis, see:

• Journal of Social Structure
• International Network for Social Network Analysis
• Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
• Kathleen Carley at CMU
• Philippa Pattison at University of Melbourne
• Social network analysis software
• Building Adaptive Organizations in the Networked, Knowledge Economy
• Center for Complex Network Research at Notre Dame.
• Australian Complex Open Systems Research Network.
• Matthiew Latapy's “Happy Flu” network diffusion experiment.