| Carter Tribley Butts | |
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Associate Professor, Sociology School of Social Sciences Associate Professor, Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences Research Centers and Institutes 
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Degrees: |
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2002, Sociology M.S., Carnegie Mellon University, 1998, Sociology B.S., Duke University, 1996, Systems Theory |
Academic
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Best Paper Award for ``Emergency Phase Networks During the World Trade Center Disaster' (with Miruna Petrescu-Prahova and Remy Cross), Third Joint US-Japan Conference on Mathematical Sociology, Sapporo, Japan, 2005; to appear as ``Responder Communication Networks in the World Trade Center Disaster: Implications for Modeling of Communication Within Emergency Settings,' Journal of Mathematical Sociology Herbert A. Simon Dissertation Award for ``Spatial Models of Large-Scale Interpersonal Networks,' Carnegie Mellon University, 2002 Outstanding Working Paper Award for ``Analyzing Life Course Patterns with the Interval Graph Approach' (with Joy Pixley), Cornell Careers Institute, 2002 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award for ``Analyzing Life Course Patterns with the Interval Graph Approach' (with Joy Pixley), ASA Section on Aging and the Life Course, 2001 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award for ``A Bayesian Model of Panic in Belief,' ASA Section on Mathematical Sociology, 1999 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 1997-2000 |
Research |
Mathematical Sociology, Social Networks, Methodology, Human Judgment and Decision Making, Economic Sociology, Information Technology |
Abstract: |
My research involves the application of formal (i.e., mathematical and computational) techniques to theoretical and methodological problems within the areas of social network analysis, mathematical sociology, quantitative methodology, and human judgment and decision making. Currently, my work focuses on: the structure of spatially embedded large-scale interpersonal networks; models for informant accuracy, network inference, and graph comparison; graphical representations of life history data; and models for human behavior in strategic situations. I am also interested in social phenomena related to emergency situations, and am involved in research which seeks to combine social science and information technology to improve group and organizational responses to disasters and other adverse events. My teaching interests include social networks, the sociology of decision making, quantitative methodology, and computational methods. |
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Butts, Carter T. (2009). ``Revisiting the Foundations of Network Analysis.'' Science, 325, 414-416. [Link] |
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Hilgeman, Christin and Butts, Carter T. (2009). ``Women's Employment and Fertility: a Welfare Regime Paradox.'' Social Science Research, 38, 103-117. [Link] |
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Butts, Carter T. (2008). ``A Relational Event Framework for Social Action.'' Sociological Methodology, 38(1):155-200. [Link] |
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Butts, Carter T. (2008). ``network: a Package for Managing Relational Data in R.'' Journal of Statistical Software, 24(2). [Link] |
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Butts, Carter T. (2008). ``Social Network Analysis with sna.'' Journal of Statistical Software, 24(6). [Link] |
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Butts, Carter T. (2008). ``Social Networks: A Methodological Introduction.'' Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 11(1), 13-41. [Link] |
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Goodreau, Steven M.; Handcock, Mark S.; Hunter, David R.; Butts, Carter T.; and Morris, Martina. (2008). ``A statnet Tutorial.'' Journal of Statistical Software, 24(9). [Link] |
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Handcock, Mark S.; Hunter, David R.; Butts, Carter T.; Goodreau, Steven M.; and Morris, Martina. (2008). ``statnet: Software Tools for the Representation, Visualization, Analysis and Simulation of Network Data.'' Journal of Statistical Software, 24(1). [Link] |
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Hunter, David R.; Handcock, Mark S.;, Butts, Carter T.; Goodreau, Steven M.; and Morris, Martina. (2008). ``ergm: A Package to Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models for Networks.'' Journal of Statistical Software, 24(3). [Link] |
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Lind, Benjamin E.; Tirado, Miguel; Butts, Carter T.; and Petrescu-Prahova, Miruna. (2008). ``Brokerage Roles in Disaster Response: Organizational Mediation in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina.'' International Journal of Emergency Management, 5:75-99. [Link] |
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Petrescu-Prahova, Miruna and Butts, Carter T. (2008). ``Emergent Coordinators in the World Trade Center Disaster.'' International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, forthcoming. [Link] |
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Butts, Carter T. (2007). Comment on Mark S. Handcock, Adrian E. Raftery, and Jeremy M. Tantrum, ``Model-based Clustering for Social Networks.'' Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 170(2), 333. [Link] |
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Butts, Carter T. (2007). "Models for Generalized Location Systems." Sociological Methodology, 37(1), 283-348. [Link] |
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Butts, Carter T. (2007). "Permutation Models for Relational Data." Sociological Methodology, 37(1), 257-281. [Link] |
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Butts, Carter T. (2007). Review of Carrington, Peter J.; Scott, John; and Wasserman, Stanley (eds.), Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Social Networks, 29(4), 603-608. [Link] |
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Butts, Carter T. (2007). ``Statistical Mechanical Models for Social Systems.'' In Adrian Bejan and Gilbert W. Merkx (eds.), Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics, 197-224. New York: Springer. [Link] |
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Butts, Carter T. and Carley, Kathleen M. (2007). "Structural Change and Homeostasis in Organizations: A Decision-Theoretic Approach." Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 31(4), 295-321. [Link] |
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Butts, Carter T.; Petrescu-Prahova, Miruna; and Cross, B. Remy. (2007). "Responder Communication Networks in the World Trade Center Disaster: Implications for Modeling of Communication Within Emergency Settings." Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 31(2), 121-147. [Link] |
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Butts, Carter T. and Rode, David C. (2007). ``Rational and Empirical Play in the Simple Hot Potato Game.'' Social Forces, 85(4): 1787-1806. [Link] |
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Mendonça, David; Butts, Carter T.; and Webb, Gary. (2007). ``Learning from the Response to Two Extreme Events.'' Contingency Today, June 4, 2007. [Link] |
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Butts, Carter T. (2006). "Exact Bounds for Degree Centralization." Social Networks, 28(4), 283-296. [Link] |
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Kalashnikov, Dmitri V.; Ma, Yiming; Mehrotra, Sharad; Hariharan, Ramaswamy; and Butts, Carter T. (2006). ``Modeling and Querying Uncertain Spatial Information for Situational Awareness Applications.'' Pages 131-138 in Proceedings of the 14th Annual ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGIR). New York: ACM Press. [Link] |
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Butts, Carter T. and Carley, Kathleen M. (2005). "Some Simple Algorithms for Structural Comparison." Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 11(4), 291-305. [Link] |
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Butts, Carter T. and Pixley, Joy E. (2004). "A Structural Approach to the Representation of Life History Data." Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 28(2), 81-124. [Link] |
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Mehrotra, Sharad; Butts, Carter T.; Kalashnikov, Dmitri V.; Venkatasubramanian, Nalini; Altintas, Kemal; Hariharan, Ramaswamy; Lee, Haimin; Ma, Yiming; Myers, Amnon; Wickramasuriya, Jehan; Eguchi, Ron; Huyck, Charles. (2004). "CAMAS: A Citizen Awareness System for Crisis Mitigation." In Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD'04), publication and software demonstration, June 13-18, 2004. [Link] |
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Butts, Carter T. (2003). "Network Inference, Error, and Informant (In)Accuracy: A Bayesian Approach." Social Networks, 25(2), 103-140. [Link] |
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Butts, Carter T. (2003). "Predictability of Large-scale Spatially Embedded Networks." In Ronald Breiger, Kathleen Carley, and Philippa Pattison (eds.), Dynamic Social Network Modeling and Analysis: Workshop Summary and Papers, 313-323. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press. [Link] |
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Butts, Carter T. and Hilgeman, Christin. (2003). "Inferring Potential Memetic Structure from Cross-Sectional Data: An Application to American Religious Beliefs." Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission, 7(2). [Link] |
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Mehrotra, Sharad; Butts, Carter T.; Kalashnikov, Dmitri V.; Venkatasubramanian, Nalini; Rao, Ramesh; Chockalingam, Ganz; Eguchi, Ron; Adams, Beverly; and Huyck, Charles. (2003). "Project RESCUE: Challenges in Responding to the Unexpected." SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging, Displays, and Medical Imaging, 5304, 179-192. [Link] |
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Miller, John H.; Butts, Carter T.; and Rode, David C. (2002). "Communication and Cooperation." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 47, 179-195. [Link] |
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Butts, Carter T. (2001). "The Complexity of Social Networks: Theoretical and Empirical Findings." Social Networks, 23(1), 31-71. [Link] |
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Butts, Carter T. (2001). Review of Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom, Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 7(4), 319-342. [Link] |
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Butts, Carter T. (2000). "An Axiomatic Approach to Network Complexity." Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 24(4), 273-301. [Link] |
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Anderson, Brigham S.; Butts, Carter T.; and Carley, Kathleen M. (1999). "The Interaction of Size and Density with Graph Level Indices." Social Networks, 21(3), 239-267. [Link] |
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Fararo, Thomas J. and Butts, Carter T. (1999). "Advances in Generative Structuralism: Structured Agency and Multilevel Dynamics." Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 24(1), 1-65. [Link] |
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Butts, Carter T. (1998). "A Bayesian Model of Panic in Belief." Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 4(4), 373-404. [Link] |
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Carley, Kathleen M. and Butts, Carter T. (1997). "An Algorithmic Approach to the Comparison of Partially Labeled Graphs." In Proceedings of the 1997 International Symposium on Command and Control Research and Technology. June. Washington, D.C. [Link] |
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Butts, Carter T.; Reilly, Colman; Speh, Marcus; and Wang, Joseph. (1994). "WWW and the Globewide Network Academy." In Proceedings of the First International WWW Conference, 1994. CERN, Switzerland. [Link] |
Professional
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American Sociological Association |
| Sigma Xi | |
| International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) | |
| Society for Mathematical Psychology | |
Address |
University of California SSPA 2145 University of California, Irvine Mail Code: 5100 Irvine, CA 92697 |
Phone: | (949)824-8591 |
Fax: | (949)824-4717 |
Email: | buttsc@uci.edu |
| Information Technology Research in Responding to Crises and Unexpected Events (ITR-RESCUE) |
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| R Code Archive |
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| Social Network Research Group |
| Updated | 07/25/2009 |
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