The phrase "affiliation network" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to social connections, organizational relationships, or collaborative partnerships.
Example: "The study aimed to analyze the affiliation network among various academic institutions to understand their collaborative efforts."
Alternatives: "association network" or "connection network".
Many of these sites are part of an affiliation network operated by Cash Engines, a division of Market Engines.
The aff superscript indicates that this is an affiliation network, or a bipartite graph.
Such a covert affiliation network structure is analyzed by evaluating the one-mode projection of the corresponding hypergraph.
The network analysed here is an affiliation network [18, 19], constructed in such a way that every university, research institution or enterprise that has been funded by the program is a vertex of the graph and there is an edge between two vertices if the corresponding participants are part of at least one TSA, for at least one funded project.
Such 2-mode network (often referred to as affiliation network) can easily be converted to a 1-mode network that only consists of events, and where links between events are representing actors visiting both events [25].
An affiliation network was therefore called a B- (resp. C- and P-) network if it was comprised of B- (resp. C- and P-) individuals that all attempted to maintain connections with partners with the highest B- (resp. C- and P-) centrality.
As a result, affiliative ties may weaken among matriline members, producing fragmentation in matrilineal affiliation networks.
Finally we investigate affiliation networks that are optimal in the sense of balancing secrecy and information.
We present and analyze affiliation networks representing common covert organizational forms: star, path and semi-complete hypergraphs.
Finally we prove that among covert organizational forms in the class of hypertrees with the same number of cells uniform star affiliation networks are optimal.
Transitivity in society is that "the friend of my friend is also my friend", which is a typical feature of social affiliation networks.
