Bipartite Network | Network Encyclopedia
What is a Bipartite Network?
A Bipartite Network is a specific type of multimodal network in which nodes are divided into two distinct sets, with edges connecting nodes only between the sets. Common examples include networks of people and their affiliations, or events and their participants.
An Example of a Bipartite Network
In an academic network, one set of nodes could represent researchers, while the other set represents publications. Edges indicate which researchers have authored which publications, allowing for the analysis of collaboration patterns.
Applications of Bipartite Networks
Bipartite networks are useful for studying co-occurrence and affiliation relationships. They can also be transformed into unimodal projections for further analysis, such as identifying clusters of collaboration.