Scale-Free Networks

Complex Webs in Nature and Technology
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-966517-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Oxford Finance Series

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.

Zielgruppe

Students and researchers in Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics, Finance, Ecology and Biology

Autoren/Hrsg.

Caldarelli, Guido

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Operations Research Graphentheorie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Berechenbarkeitstheorie, Komplexitätstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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
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

Über Autor(innen)

Guido Caldarelli
Associate Professorship (Primo Ricercatore) National Institute for Condensed Matter
Dipartimento di Fisica,
Università di Roma "La Sapienza"