“…Current dynamic network models (Robins and Pattison, 2001;Xu and Hero, 2013;Xing et al, 2010;Sarkar and Moore, 2005) raise open questions about coherency, flexibility, theoretical properties and computational tractability. Contributions considering edge-specific covariate effects are available in static settings (see e.g., Snijders et al, 2006;Zanghi et al, 2010;Hoff et al, 2002) and developments in the longitudinal framework have been recently explored (Snijders, 2005;Cranmer and Desmarais, 2011;Ward et al, 2013). Such approaches inherit the drawbacks of the dynamic network models they seek to generalize, with only Ward et al (2013) allowing the edge covariate parameters to vary over time via a sequential estimating approach, which does not borrow dynamic information efficiently, and fails to properly propagate uncertainty.…”