Grants per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
Professor Contractor has been at the forefront of three emerging interdisciplines: network science, computational social science and web science. He is investigating how social and knowledge networks form – and perform - in contexts including business, scientific communities, healthcare and space travel.
Education/Academic qualification
Communication, PhD, University of Southern California
… → 1987
Communication, MA, University of Southern California
… → 1986
Electrical Engineering, BTech, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
… → 1983
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Grants
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Doctoral Dissertation Research in DRMS: Assembling Teams Supported by Augmented Intelligence
Contractor, N. & DeChurch, L. A.
9/1/20 → 7/31/21
Project: Research project
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Collaborative Research: A Hierarchical Multidimensional Network-based Approach for Multi-Competitor Product Design
6/1/20 → 5/31/23
Project: Research project
Research Output
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A Network Approach to the Formation of Self-assembled Teams
Ichhaporia, R., Gómez-Zará, D., DeChurch, L. & Contractor, N., 2020, Complex Networks and Their Applications VIII - Volume 2 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications COMPLEX NETWORKS 2019. Cherifi, H., Gaito, S., Mendes, J. F., Moro, E. & Rocha, L. M. (eds.). Springer, p. 969-981 13 p. (Studies in Computational Intelligence; vol. 882 SCI).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Assessing the stability of egocentric networks over time using the digital participant-Aided sociogram tool Network Canvas
Hogan, B., Janulis, P., Phillips, G. L., Melville, J., Mustanski, B., Contractor, N. & Birkett, M., 2020, In: Network Science. 8, 2, p. 204-222 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access4 Scopus citations -
A Taxonomy of Team-Assembly Systems: Understanding How People Use Technologies to Form Teams
Gómez-Zará, D., DeChurch, L. A. & Contractor, N. S., Oct 14 2020, In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 4, CSCW2, 181.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities
Lazer, D. M. J., Pentland, A., Watts, D. J., Aral, S., Athey, S., Contractor, N., Freelon, D., Gonzalez-Bailon, S., King, G., Margetts, H., Nelson, A., Salganik, M. J., Strohmaier, M., Vespignani, A. & Wagner, C., Aug 28 2020, In: Science. 369, 6507, p. 1060-1062 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Networked experiments and modeling for producing collective identity in a group of human subjects using an iterative abduction framework
Cedeno-Mieles, V., Hu, Z., Ren, Y., Deng, X., Adiga, A., Barrett, C., Contractor, N., Ekanayake, S., Epstein, J. M., Goode, B. J., Korkmaz, G., Kuhlman, C. J., Machi, D., Macy, M. W., Marathe, M. V., Ramakrishnan, N., Ravi, S. S., Saraf, P. & Self, N., Dec 1 2020, In: Social Network Analysis and Mining. 10, 1, 11.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2 Scopus citations