The Internet Plus in Network Science——Ideals, Overviews and Perspectives

This paper reviews some advances in network science from the perspective of the Internet plus.In retrospect, the first wave of network science studies, Internet plus big data, was set off by foreign scholars in the eve of the new millennium. Next, the second wave of network science studies, Internet plus dynamics, was launched by Chinese scholars. We predict that the third wave of network science studies, Internet plus game theory and pure math, may be about to come. We hope that the young scholars in China will be able to make greater contributions to the future network science.