Zvi Lotker is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at Bar-Ilan University, Israel since 2018.  He graduated with a double B.Sc. in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Industrial Engineering, from Ben Gurion University in 1991. In 1997, he obtained an M.Sc. in Mathematics, and in 2003, obtained  his Ph.D. in Distributed Algorithms, both from Tel Aviv University. He was Postdoctoral Fellow at the CWI in Amsterdam, MPI in Saarbrücken Germany, and Mascotte in Nice France from 2003 to 2006. He was Associate Professor in the Communication Systems Engineering department at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva in the Communication Systems Engineering department from 2010-2020. His main research areas are communication networks, online algorithms, sensor networks, and recently, social networks. In 2018, he was awarded the SIROCCO Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing.

“The book is suitable for diverse readers from novices to experts with different background. … Each chapter has a handy conclusion and some interesting exercises for knowledge checking and extensions. … The book contains many interesting and vivid examples relevant to dramas and narratives.” (Yilun Shang, zbMATH 1476.91001, 2022)

• Chapter 1. Overview of the Book.- Part 1: Static Literature Networks.- Chapter 2. Graphs in Dramas.- Chapter 3. Partition in Social Network.- Chapter  4. Taking the Road Less Traveled: Decision Matrices.- Chapter 5. Social Rationality and Networks.- Chapter 6. Sun Tzu Says: Direct Attack.- Chapter 7. Indirect Attack.- Chapter 8. 1812: Social Networks Capture Napoleon.- Chapter 9. The Search for Conflict.- Chapter 10. Ego Networks in Dramas.- Part 2: Evolution and Time in Literature Networks.- Chapter 11. Introduction to Evolving Social Networks.- Chapter 12. Clocks.- Chapter 13. M-Diagrams.- Chapter 14. The Tale of Two Clocks.- Chapter 15. Real Functions.- Chapter 16. Evolving Social Network High Dimensions and Time Frames.

Zvi Lotker is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at Bar-Ilan University, Israel since 2018.  He graduated with a double B.Sc. in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Industrial Engineering, from Ben Gurion University in 1991. In 1997, he obtained an M.Sc. in Mathematics, and in 2003, obtained  his Ph.D. in Distributed Algorithms, both from Tel Aviv University. He was Postdoctoral Fellow at the CWI in Amsterdam, MPI in Saarbrücken Germany, and Mascotte in Nice France from 2003 to 2006. He was Associate Professor in the Communication Systems Engineering department at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva in the Communication Systems Engineering department from 2010-2020. His main research areas are communication networks, online algorithms, sensor networks, and recently, social networks. In 2018, he was awarded the SIROCCO Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing.

“The book is suitable for diverse readers from novices to experts with different background. … Each chapter has a handy conclusion and some interesting exercises for knowledge checking and extensions. … The book contains many interesting and vivid examples relevant to dramas and narratives.” (Yilun Shang, zbMATH 1476.91001, 2022)

• Chapter 1. Overview of the Book.- Part 1: Static Literature Networks.- Chapter 2. Graphs in Dramas.- Chapter 3. Partition in Social Network.- Chapter  4. Taking the Road Less Traveled: Decision Matrices.- Chapter 5. Social Rationality and Networks.- Chapter 6. Sun Tzu Says: Direct Attack.- Chapter 7. Indirect Attack.- Chapter 8. 1812: Social Networks Capture Napoleon.- Chapter 9. The Search for Conflict.- Chapter 10. Ego Networks in Dramas.- Part 2: Evolution and Time in Literature Networks.- Chapter 11. Introduction to Evolving Social Networks.- Chapter 12. Clocks.- Chapter 13. M-Diagrams.- Chapter 14. The Tale of Two Clocks.- Chapter 15. Real Functions.- Chapter 16. Evolving Social Network High Dimensions and Time Frames.

Zvi Lotker is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at Bar-Ilan University, Israel since 2018.  He graduated with a double B.Sc. in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Industrial Engineering, from Ben Gurion University in 1991. In 1997, he obtained an M.Sc. in Mathematics, and in 2003, obtained  his Ph.D. in Distributed Algorithms, both from Tel Aviv University. He was Postdoctoral Fellow at the CWI in Amsterdam, MPI in Saarbrücken Germany, and Mascotte in Nice France from 2003 to 2006. He was Associate Professor in the Communication Systems Engineering department at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva in the Communication Systems Engineering department from 2010-2020. His main research areas are communication networks, online algorithms, sensor networks, and recently, social networks. In 2018, he was awarded the SIROCCO Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing.

“The book is suitable for diverse readers from novices to experts with different background. … Each chapter has a handy conclusion and some interesting exercises for knowledge checking and extensions. … The book contains many interesting and vivid examples relevant to dramas and narratives.” (Yilun Shang, zbMATH 1476.91001, 2022)

• Chapter 1. Overview of the Book.- Part 1: Static Literature Networks.- Chapter 2. Graphs in Dramas.- Chapter 3. Partition in Social Network.- Chapter  4. Taking the Road Less Traveled: Decision Matrices.- Chapter 5. Social Rationality and Networks.- Chapter 6. Sun Tzu Says: Direct Attack.- Chapter 7. Indirect Attack.- Chapter 8. 1812: Social Networks Capture Napoleon.- Chapter 9. The Search for Conflict.- Chapter 10. Ego Networks in Dramas.- Part 2: Evolution and Time in Literature Networks.- Chapter 11. Introduction to Evolving Social Networks.- Chapter 12. Clocks.- Chapter 13. M-Diagrams.- Chapter 14. The Tale of Two Clocks.- Chapter 15. Real Functions.- Chapter 16. Evolving Social Network High Dimensions and Time Frames.