By Ted G. Lewis
A complete examine the rising technological know-how of networks
Network technology is helping you layout quicker, extra resilient verbal exchange networks; revise infrastructure platforms akin to electricity grids, telecommunications networks, and airline routes; version industry dynamics; comprehend synchronization in organic platforms; and learn social interactions between people.
This is the 1st publication to take a accomplished examine this rising technological know-how. It examines a few of the forms of networks (regular, random, small-world, impact, scale-free, and social) and applies community approaches and behaviors to emergence, epidemics, synchrony, and chance. The book's area of expertise lies in its integration of recommendations throughout computing device technological know-how, biology, physics, social community research, economics, and marketing.
The booklet is split into easy-to-understand topical chapters and the presentation is augmented with transparent illustrations, difficulties and solutions, examples, purposes, tutorials, and a dialogue of similar Java software program. Chapters cover:
- Origins
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Graphs
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Regular Networks
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Random Networks
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Small-World Networks
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Scale-Free Networks
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Emergence
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Epidemics
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Synchrony
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Influence Networks
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Vulnerability
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Net Gain
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Biology
This e-book bargains a brand new knowing and interpretation of the sector of community technology. it truly is an critical source for researchers, execs, and technicians in engineering, computing, and biology. It additionally serves as a beneficial textbook for complex undergraduate and graduate classes in comparable fields of study.
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Extra info for Network Science: Theory and Applications
Consumer handbook files require a PDF (portable record file) reader to open. 2. 1 SET-THEORETIC DEFINITION OF A GRAPH A graph G ¼ [N,L,f ] is a 3-tuple which includes a suite of nodes N, a suite of hyperlinks L, and a mapping functionality f: L ! N Â N, which maps hyperlinks into pairs of nodes. A community G(t) ¼ [N(t), L(t), f (t) : J ] is a 3-tuple along with a suite of time-varying nodes N(t), time-varying hyperlinks L(t), and a time-varying mapping functionality f (t). The dynamic behaviors—what we name microrules—are represented algorithmically by way of J, which during this publication is a collection of Java equipment. The quantity and houses of N(t), L(t), and f(t) : J are allowed to alter as time passes in a community. during this feel, a community is a dynamic graph. for instance, the form of a community, as defined via behaviors and the mapping functionality f (t) : J, may possibly switch as hyperlinks are dropped, additional, or rewired (switched from one node to a different) through the years. however, a community could develop with the addition of nodes and hyperlinks through the years. those time-varying alterations distinguish networks from graphs. We go back to the topic of dynamic graphs—networks—in the subsequent bankruptcy. allow us to forget about the opportunity of swap within the components of G ¼ [N,L,f ] through the years, and imagine that N, L, and f stay consistent for the lifetime of G. therefore, the weather of N and L stay fixed when it comes to their quantity and houses, and the mapping functionality f by no means alterations as soon as the graph is proven. What are the weather of N and L, and the way does graph idea give you the foundation of community technological know-how? The solutions to those questions depend upon the field of inquiry. Graph concept is normal adequate to give an explanation for a variety of phenomena in sociology, physics, enterprise, biology, and laptop technology. 2. 1. 1 Nodes, hyperlinks, and Mapping functionality within the social sciences, N is a collection of actors, and L is a collection that defines a few dating between actors. for instance, N could be the set of people that interact in an office, and L could be the strains on a company chart. on the other hand, N could be a set of people that have gotten smaller a communicable disorder from each other, and L could be the interactions that resulted in contraction of the disorder. within the actual and mathematical sciences, N denotes vertices, issues, nodes, or brokers, whereas L denotes edges, hyperlinks, or connections one of the components of N. for instance, N should be atoms in a crystalline constitution and L the bonds that carry the 26 GRAPHS constitution jointly. In computing device engineering, nodes might be transistors and hyperlinks wires connecting them. The graph, to that end, is an electrical circuit. however, N should be towns on a map, and L could be the roads and highways that attach them. Graphs are abstractions, that's why we will be able to observe them to many assorted realworld events. In machine technological know-how, nodes and hyperlinks shape facts constructions, which define networks to be saved and processed. The nodes and hyperlinks can signify whatever simply because info buildings are summary entities that stay simply in the confines of software program. accordingly, graphs and networks are versions of social, actual, and mathematical buildings.