Patrick Doreian is an American

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

and

social scientist Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of socie ...

, whose specialty is

network analysis Network analysis can refer to: * Network theory, the analysis of relations through mathematical graphs ** Social network analysis, network theory applied to social relations * Network analysis (electrical circuits) See also *Network planning and ...

. His specific research interests include

blockmodeling Blockmodeling is a set or a coherent framework, that is used for analyzing social structure and also for setting procedure(s) for partitioning (clustering) social network's units ( nodes, vertices, actors), based on specific patterns, which form ...

social structure In the social sciences, social structure is the aggregate of patterned social arrangements in society that are both emergent from and determinant of the actions of individuals. Likewise, society is believed to be grouped into structurally rel ...

and network processes. Doreian,

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from the

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the univers ...

Sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation an ...

and Statistics, was during his research career focused on social network research, especially regarding temporal networks, scientific collaboration, partitioning networks, signed networks, network autocorrelation and the

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. He was also an (co)editor of '' The Journal of Mathematical Sociology'' (1982–2005) and ''

Social Networks A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. The social network perspective provides a set of methods for a ...

'' (2006–2015). He was also a Centennial professor at the

London School of Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public university, public research university located in London, England and a constituent college of the federal University of London. Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidn ...

(2002) and a

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at the

University of California-Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and pr ...

and the

University of Ljubljana The University of Ljubljana ( sl, Univerza v Ljubljani, , la, Universitas Labacensis), often referred to as UL, is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia. It has approximately 39,000 enrolled students. History Beginnings Although certain ...

Work

With Thomas J. Fararo in 1984, he introduced tripartite structural analysis. With Norman P. Hummon in 1989, he proposed a main path analysis, a mathematical tool, to identify the major paths in a

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, which is one form of a

directed acyclic graph In mathematics, particularly graph theory, and computer science, a directed acyclic graph (DAG) is a directed graph with no directed cycles. That is, it consists of vertices and edges (also called ''arcs''), with each edge directed from one v ...

(DAG). In 1994, with Vladimir Batagelj and Anuška Ferligoj, he introduced the generalized blockmodeling.

Awards

* his co-authored book ''Generalized blockmodeling'' (with Vladimir Batagelj and Anuška Ferligoj), was in 2007 awarded the Harrison White Outstanding Book Award by the Mathematical Sociology Section of American Sociological Association.

Selected bibliography

* P. Doreian, V. Batagelj, A. Ferligoj, Mark Granovetter (Series Editor), ''Generalized Blockmodeling'' (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences), Cambridge University Press 2004 () * P. Doreian and A. Mrvar, “A Partitioning Approach to Structural Balance”, Social Networks, Vol. 18, 1996, pp. 149–168 * P. Doreian and Andrej Mrvar (2009) “Partitioning Signed Social Networks”, Social Networks, Vol. 31: 1-11 * A. Mrvar and Patrick Doreian (2009), “Partitioning Signed Two-Mode Networks”, Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 33: 196-221 * A. Ferligoj, P. Doreian and V. Batagelj (2011): “Positions and Roles” Chapter 29 (pp 434–446) in John Scott and Peter Carrington (Eds.) Handbook of Social Network Analysis, Newbury Park: Sage Publications * P. Doreian, V. Batagelj and A. Ferligoj (2004), “Generalized Blockmodeling Two-Mode Network Data”, Social Networks, Vol. 26(1) 29-53.

References

External links

Personal webpage
1941 births Living people American social scientists University of Pittsburgh faculty Network scientists Academics of the London School of Economics University of California, Irvine faculty Academic staff of the University of Ljubljana {{scientist-stub