Network science : theory and practice /
Network science helps you design faster, more resilient communication networks; revise infrastructure systems such as electrical power grids, telecommunications networks, and airline routes; model market dynamics; understand synchronization in biological systems; and analyze social interactions amon...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, N.J. :
John Wiley & Sons,
[2009]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Network science helps you design faster, more resilient communication networks; revise infrastructure systems such as electrical power grids, telecommunications networks, and airline routes; model market dynamics; understand synchronization in biological systems; and analyze social interactions among people. This is the first book to take a comprehensive look at this emerging science. It examines the various kinds of networks (regular, random, small-world, influence, scale-free, and social) and applies network processes and behaviors to emergence, epidemics, synchrony, and risk. The book's uniqueness lies in its integration of concepts across computer science, biology, physics, social network analysis, economics, and marketing. The book is divided into easy-to-understand topical chapters and the presentation is augmented with clear illustrations, problems and answers, examples, applications, tutorials, and a discussion of related Java software. Chapters cover: origins, graphs, regular networks, random networks, small-world networks, scale-free networks, emergence, epidemics, synchrony, influence networks, vulnerability, net gain, biology. |
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| Item Description: | Subtitle from cover. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 512 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-501) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780470400784 0470400781 9780470400791 047040079X |