Overview
Network Science is the emerging field concerned with the study of large, realistic networks. This interdisciplinary endeavor, focusing on the patterns of interactions that arise between individual components of natural and engineered systems, has been applied to data sets from activities as diverse as high-throughput biological experiments, online trading information, smart-meter utility supplies, and pervasive telecommunications and surveillance technologies. This unique text/reference provides a fascinating insight into the state of the art in network science, highlighting the commonality across very different areas of application and the ways in which each area can be advanced by injecting ideas and techniques from another. The book includes contributions from an international selection of experts, providing viewpoints from a broad range of disciplines. It emphasizes networks that arise in nature—such as food webs, protein interactions, gene expression, and neural connections—and in technology—such as finance, airline transport, urban development and global trade. Topics and Features: begins with a clear overview chapter to introduce this interdisciplinary field; discusses the classic network science of fixed connectivity structures, including empirical studies, mathematical models and computational algorithms; examines time-dependent processes that take place over networks, covering topics such as synchronisation, and message passing algorithms; investigates time-evolving networks, such as the World Wide Web and shifts in topological properties (connectivity, spectrum, percolation); explores applications of complex networks in the physical and engineering sciences, looking ahead to new developments in the field. Researchers and professionals from disciplines as varied as computer science, mathematics, engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, neuroscience, epidemiology, and the social sciences will all benefit from this topical and broadoverview of current activities and grand challenges in the unfolding field of network science.
Full Product Details
Author: Ernesto Estrada ,
Maria Fox ,
Desmond J. Higham ,
Gian-Luca Oppo
Publisher: Springer London Ltd
Imprint: Springer London Ltd
Edition: 2010
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 1.200kg
ISBN: 9781849963954
ISBN 10: 1849963959
Pages: 245
Publication Date: 20 September 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
From the reviews: Unlike many existing books that address mathematical network science or that focus on a single application area, this book collects papers written by experts specializing in different fields. ... the goal of this book is to broaden the view of readers. It focuses on applications of network science rather than on the mathematics of network analysis. It is suitable for readers with any background. (Hsun-Hsien Chang, ACM Computing Reviews, March, 2011)
From the reviews: Unlike many existing books that address mathematical network science or that focus on a single application area, this book collects papers written by experts specializing in different fields. ... the goal of this book is to broaden the view of readers. It focuses on applications of network science rather than on the mathematics of network analysis. It is suitable for readers with any background. (Hsun-Hsien Chang, ACM Computing Reviews, March, 2011)
