Alain Barrat

Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The availability of large data sets has allowed researchers to uncover complex properties such as large-scale fluctuations and heterogeneities in many networks, leading to the breakdown of standard theoretical frameworks and models. Until recently these systems were considered as haphazard sets of points and connections. Recent advances have generated a vigorous research effort in understanding the effect of complex connectivity patterns on dynamical phenomena. This book presents a comprehensive account of these effects. A vast number of systems, from the brain to ecosystems, power grids and the internet, can be represented as large complex networks. This book will interest graduate students and researchers in many disciplines, from physics and statistical mechanics to mathematical biology and information science. Its modular approach allows readers to readily access the sections of most interest to them, and complicated maths is avoided so the text can be easily followed by non-experts in the subject.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511451478
• Artikelnr.: 38184448

Autorenporträt

Alain Barrat is Senior Researcher at the Centre de Physique Théorique (CNRS and Aix-Marseille University, France) and at the Institute for Scientific Interchange in Turin, Italy. His research interests are in the field of out-of-equilibrium statistical mechanics.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. Preliminaries: networks and graphs
2. Networks and complexity
3. Network models
4. Introduction to dynamical processes: theory and simulation
5. Phase transitions on complex networks
6. Resilience and robustness of networks
7. Synchronization phenomena in networks
8. Walking and searching on networks
9. Epidemic spreading in population networks
10. Social networks and collective behavior
11. Traffic on complex networks
12. Networks in biology: from the cell to ecosystems
13. Postface: critically examining complex networks science
Appendixes
References
Index.