
Scale-Free Networks
Complex Webs in Nature and Technology
Guido Caldarelli(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 3. May 2007
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-0-19-921151-7 (ISBN)
Description
A variety of different social, natural and technological systems can be described by the same mathematical framework. This holds from the Internet to food webs and to boards of company directors. In all these situations a graph of the elements of the system and their interconnections displays a universal feature. There are only few elements with many connections, and many elements with few connections. This book presents the experimental evidence of these "Scale-free networks" and provides students and researchers with a corpus of theoretical results and algorithms to analyse and understand these features. The content of this book and the exposition makes it a clear textbook for beginners, and a reference book for the experts.
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The context and exposition make this a useful textbook for beginners, as well as a reference book for experts in a variety of disciplines * CERN Courier *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
128 line drawings and 9 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
740 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-921151-7 (9780199211517)
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Book
04/2013
Oxford University Press
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Person
Guido Caldarelli
Associate Professorship (Primo Ricercatore) National Institute for Condensed Matter
Dipartimento di Fisica,
Universita di Roma "La Sapienza"
Associate Professorship (Primo Ricercatore) National Institute for Condensed Matter
Dipartimento di Fisica,
Universita di Roma "La Sapienza"
Content
1. Introduction to Graphs ; 2. Graph structure: Communities ; 3. Scale-invariance ; 4. The Origin of power law functions ; 5. Graph Generating Models ; 6. Networks in the cell ; 7. Ecological networks ; 8. Geophysical networks ; 9. Technological networks: Internet and WWW ; 10. Collaborative Relational and Cognitive Networks ; 11. Financial networks