Complex Webs
Anticipating the Improbable
Published on 23. December 2010
Book
Hardback
386 pages
978-0-521-11366-3 (ISBN)
Description
Complex Webs synthesises modern mathematical developments with a broad range of complex network applications of interest to the engineer and system scientist, presenting the common principles, algorithms, and tools governing network behaviour, dynamics, and complexity. The authors investigate multiple mathematical approaches to inverse power laws and expose the myth of normal statistics to describe natural and man-made networks. Richly illustrated throughout with real-world examples including cell phone use, accessing the Internet, failure of power grids, measures of health and disease, distribution of wealth, and many other familiar phenomena from physiology, bioengineering, biophysics, and informational and social networks, this book makes thought-provoking reading. With explanations of phenomena, diagrams, end-of-chapter problems, and worked examples, it is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in engineering and the life, social, and physical sciences. It is also a perfect introduction for researchers who are interested in this exciting new way of viewing dynamic networks.
Reviews / Votes
'Recent books highlighting different aspects of network science can be roughly separated into popular works that lay out an integrated scientific view of humans and modern technology; manuals and references focused on specific application areas such as biophysics, econophysics, or sociophysics; and texts that explore advanced networks-related topics that go beyond particular disciplines. Complex Webs most closely matches the last (and smallest) category, as it interweaves various topics from statistical physics to support the understanding of complex networks; perhaps in the future those topics will form the foundation of a network science.' H. Eugene Stanley, Physics TodayMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 6 Tables, black and white; 7 Halftones, black and white; 103 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 249 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
898 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-11366-3 (9780521113663)
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E-Book
12/2010
1st Edition
Cambridge University Press
€88.99
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Persons
Bruce J. West is Chief Mathematical Scientist with the Information Science Directorate at the Army Research Office, a position he has held for the last 10 years. After receiving his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Rochester in 1970, he was Associate Director of a small private research institute (La Jolla Institute) for almost twenty years and a Professor at the University of North Texas for a decade. His research interests are in the nonlinear dynamics of complex networks. He has over 350 scientific publications, including 11 books and 8500 citations, and he has received multiple academic and government awards for his research and publications. Paolo Grigolini is currently a Professor in the Physics Department and the Center for Nonlinear Science at the University of North Texas. He is an internationally recognized theorist interested in the foundations of quantum mechanics, including wave function collapse and the influence of classical chaos on quantum systems. His other research interests include the foundations of statistical physics, biophysical problems such as DNA sequencing and the network science of human decision making and cognition.
Content
1. Webs; 2. Webs, trees and branches; 3. Mostly linear dynamics; 4. Random walks and chaos; 5. Non-analytic dynamics; 6. Brief recent history of webs; 7. Dynamics of chance; 8. Synopsis.