The Research Page of Carter Butts
Page Contents
- Personal Information
- Doctoral Students
- Research Projects
- Data Analysis Software
- Links to Relevant Online Resources
- Links to Relevant Journals
- Departmental Links
I am currently an associate professor in the Department of Sociology
and the Institute for
Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at the University
of California, Irvine. (I previously described myself as an
"associated" professor, but I am not sure that anyone got the joke.)
For those who are interested, an always mildly out of
date copy of my vita is available here.
(See also my faculty
profile, which may or may not be slightly less out of
date.)
I am currently supervising four Ph.D students in the Department of
Sociology:
- Ryan Acton
- Zack Almquist
- Lorien Jasny
- Emma Spiro
Ph.D students I have graduated (yes, it does eventually happen!) so far
include:
- Christin Hilgeman
- Miruna Petrescu-Prahova
Other doctoral students with which I have worked fairly extensively
include Gabriel Lawson and Fabio Leite (of the Institute
for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences), Christine Bevc (Department of
Sociology, University of Colorado), as well as Remy Cross, Chris
Marcum, Kimberly Marx, Leah Reich and Ben Lind (Department of
Sociology). Look for great deeds from all of these fine researchers in
the years to come....
I am involved in a number of research projects involving social structure,
measurement/comparison of graphs, behavior in emergency settings, the
emergence of culture, and strategic decision-making.
Several of these projects are described in more detail on my (now
wildly out of date) research projects
page. A better view of current goings-on may be had via my UCI
faculty
profile.
I am the author of an assortment of programs for data analysis; my work in
this regard deals primarily with relational data. The resulting software
is freely available for other scientists to use, and much of it can be
found online. Specific projects include:
- The Statnet Project
- This is a large collaborative project, centered on the generation of
free software tools for the analysis of relational data; I am one of
several members of the core development team.
- My archive of R Routines
for Network Analysis
- This page contains information on R packages written and/or
maintained
by me, including the latest versions of sna and metamatrix. Although
the focus of the routines is on network analysis, a few organizational and
Bayesian data analytic tools are available as well.
- The NetStat
Library and Application Archive (Note: now defunct.)
- This page contains information on NetStat, a library and archive of
associated applications for the analysis of social and organizational
structures. NetStat is implemented in ANSI C, and should be portable to a
variety of platforms.
The following online resources are particularly salient to my own research
interests, and may be of use to others in the field:
Professional Organizations
- The American Sociological
Association
- The ASA's
section on Mathematical Sociology
- The
ASA's
section on Methodology
- The
ASA's
Section on Rationality and Society (previously known as the Section
on Rational Choice)
- The
ASA's
section on Social Psychology
- The International
Network for Social Network Analysis
(INSNA)
- Sigma Xi, the scientific
research society
- The Society for
Mathematical
Psychology
- The American Association for the
Advancement of Science
Online Projects and Archives
- The Statnet Project
- The R Project
- The Comprehensive R Archive
Network (CRAN)
- My page of R Routines for
Social Network Analysis
- The Open Science Project
- The StatLib statistics archive
- IMBS technical reports
- CASOS/ICES research
reports
- The Santa Fe Institute working
paper series
A wide variety of journals are relevant to work in my field; far too many
for an exhaustive list to be practical. Nevertheless, the journals below
are particularly useful, either as sources and outlets for formal
social science research and/or for other useful theoretical and empirical
developments. (Note: given my lack of time for updating things of late,
these links may or may not be current. If you found this page, I trust
you can use your favorite search engine to find the journal home page as
well.)
- American Journal of
Sociology
- American Sociological
Review
- Computational
and Mathematical Organization
Theory
- Connections
- Current
Research in Social Psychology
- Econometrica
- Electronic Journal of
Combinatorics
- Journal of the
American Statistical Association
- Journal of
Behavioral Decision Making
- Journal
of Classification
- Journal of Games
and Economic Behavior
- Journal
of Mathematical Sociology
- Journal of Mathematical
Psychology
- Journal of
Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
- Journal of
Economic Behavior and Organization
- Journal of
Social Structure
- Random
Structures and Algorithms
- Social Forces
- Social
Networks
- Social Psychology
Quarterly
- Sociological
Methodology
- Sociological
Methods and Research
- Theory
and Decision
- Transactions of the American
Mathematical Society
The following are links to various departments with which I am affiliated
or otherwise have had regular dealings, in some way, shape, or form.
- Currently Affiliated Units
- The Department of
Sociology at the University of California, Irvine
- The Institute for
Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at UCI
- The California Institute for
Telecommunications and Information Technology (and the NSF-funded RESCUE project)
- Previously Affiliated Units
- The Department of Social and Decision
Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University
- CMU's Institute for Complex
Engineered Systems
- The Center for the
Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems at CMU
- Duke University's Sociology
Department
- Other Departments of Interest (Possibly for Reasons Known Only to
Me)
- The H.J. Heinz III School of
Public Policy and Management at CMU
- The CMU Statistics
Department
- The University of Washington's Center for
Statistics and the Social Sciences
buttsc@uci.edu