
The Nature of Complex Networks
Oxford University Press
Published on 13. February 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
480 pages
978-0-19-895963-2 (ISBN)
Description
The Nature of Complex Networks provides a systematic introduction to the statistical mechanics of complex networks and the different theoretical achievements in the field that are now finding strands in common.
The book presents a wide range of networks and the processes taking place on them, including recently developed directions, methods, and techniques. It assumes a statistical mechanics view of random networks based on the concept of statistical ensembles but also features the approaches and methods of modern random graph theory and their overlaps with statistical physics.
This book will appeal to graduate students and researchers in the fields of statistical physics, complex systems, graph theory, applied mathematics, and theoretical epidemiology.
The book presents a wide range of networks and the processes taking place on them, including recently developed directions, methods, and techniques. It assumes a statistical mechanics view of random networks based on the concept of statistical ensembles but also features the approaches and methods of modern random graph theory and their overlaps with statistical physics.
This book will appeal to graduate students and researchers in the fields of statistical physics, complex systems, graph theory, applied mathematics, and theoretical epidemiology.
Reviews / Votes
The current volume by Dorogovtsev and Mendes takes quite a broad view of complex networks to include the analysis of finite and infinite graphs, directed and undirected graphs, multigraphs, hypergraphs, and even simplicial complexes, as networks scale according to increasing N or in some other fashion. The writing style is that of physics and especially statistical mechanics with frequent connections made to physical concepts such as Bose-Einstein condensation...The current volume can especially serve as a useful reference on complex networks from a physics perspective. * Lenwood S. Heath, MathSciNet *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
172 line drawings and halftones
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 176 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
835 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-895963-2 (9780198959632)
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Sergey N. Dorogovtsev | Jose F. F. Mendes
The Nature of Complex Networks
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06/2022
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Persons
Sergey N. Dorogovtsev graduated from Leningrad State University in theoretical physics. He was a researcher at the Ioffe Institute, St Petersburg, Russia, from which he obtained a PhD, and at the University of Porto. Currently, he is a senior scientist at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He is responsible for a number of results on the statistical mechanics of complex networks and on critical phenomena in disordered systems.
Jose F. F. Mendes is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He studied at the University of Porto from which he graduated in Physics in 1987, and obtained his PhD in Physics from the University of Porto in 1995. He then completed postdoctoral studies at the University of Boston in 1995/1996. He is Fellow of Academia Europaea (2012), Network Science Society (2019) and American Physical Society (2020). He has received the CSS Senior Scientific Award by Complex Systems Society (2020).
Jose F. F. Mendes is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He studied at the University of Porto from which he graduated in Physics in 1987, and obtained his PhD in Physics from the University of Porto in 1995. He then completed postdoctoral studies at the University of Boston in 1995/1996. He is Fellow of Academia Europaea (2012), Network Science Society (2019) and American Physical Society (2020). He has received the CSS Senior Scientific Award by Complex Systems Society (2020).
Author
Researcher, Department of PhysicsResearcher, Department of Physics, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Professor of PhysicsProfessor of Physics, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Content
Preface
1: First insight
2: Graphs
3: Classical random graphs
4: Equilibrium networks
5: Evolving networks
6: Connected components
7: Epidemics and spreading phenomena
8: Networks of networks
9: Spectra and communities
10: Walks and search
11: Temporal networks
12: Cooperative systems on networks
13: Inference and reconstruction
14: What's next?
Further Reading
Appendices A-G
References
1: First insight
2: Graphs
3: Classical random graphs
4: Equilibrium networks
5: Evolving networks
6: Connected components
7: Epidemics and spreading phenomena
8: Networks of networks
9: Spectra and communities
10: Walks and search
11: Temporal networks
12: Cooperative systems on networks
13: Inference and reconstruction
14: What's next?
Further Reading
Appendices A-G
References