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.
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The context and exposition make this a useful textbook for beginners, as well as a reference book for experts in a variety of disciplines (CERN Courier )
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Guido Caldarelli
Associate Professorship (Primo Ricercatore) National Institute for Condensed Matter
Dipartimento di Fisica,
Universit di Roma "La Sapienza"
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An excellent introductory text on complex networks and their applications
15 Jan 2010
By William Smith
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Format:Hardcover
This book is a welcome fix to a gap in the complex network literature. It is sufficently detailed to enable the
reader to enter into research in the field, but does not assume any technical background knowledge. It is divided into two parts: the first gives an overview of the theory of complex networks; the second, a collection of applications from different areas of academia.
The author is a leading researcher in the field, and because of this many of the applications are the subject of current research. The book does not attempt to be exhaustive, which is one of its strengths: it is a highly readable and fascinating survey of the more exciting aspects of complex networks. The book will likely be taken up as one of the standard undergraduate textbooks in the field.
Finally, I note that Caldarelli makes use of an amusing literary device: the first sentence of each chapter is an adaptation of a first sentence from a famous book. While this will provide mirth for most readers, it seems to have confounded one reviewer.
For example:
Foundation by Isaac Asimov: His name was Gaal Dornick and he was just a country boy who had never seen Trantor before.
Caldarelli: His name was Leonard Euler and he was just a country boy who had never seen Königsberg before.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.
Caldarelli: You don't know about graphs without you have read the previous chapter; but that ain't no matter.
reader to enter into research in the field, but does not assume any technical background knowledge. It is divided into two parts: the first gives an overview of the theory of complex networks; the second, a collection of applications from different areas of academia.
The author is a leading researcher in the field, and because of this many of the applications are the subject of current research. The book does not attempt to be exhaustive, which is one of its strengths: it is a highly readable and fascinating survey of the more exciting aspects of complex networks. The book will likely be taken up as one of the standard undergraduate textbooks in the field.
Finally, I note that Caldarelli makes use of an amusing literary device: the first sentence of each chapter is an adaptation of a first sentence from a famous book. While this will provide mirth for most readers, it seems to have confounded one reviewer.
For example:
Foundation by Isaac Asimov: His name was Gaal Dornick and he was just a country boy who had never seen Trantor before.
Caldarelli: His name was Leonard Euler and he was just a country boy who had never seen Königsberg before.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.
Caldarelli: You don't know about graphs without you have read the previous chapter; but that ain't no matter.
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A useful and accessible introduction to networks
9 Jan 2010
By Michele Catanzaro
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Format:Hardcover
This book is an ideal starting point for entering in the field of complex networks. The text is written in such a way that a broad public, including readers without a strong mathematical background, can learn the basic ideas and tools of the field.
In the first part of the book, the core concepts and procedures are reviewed. In the second, a large set of relevant real-world networks are described one by one, including networks in the cell, in finance and in technology, just to mention a few. This description is a precious repository of information for experts coming from other fields and looking for a fresh network perspective on their subjects of research.
The style of the book is highly didactic. It is structured in such a way that it can be read at several different levels, depending on the reader's interests and background. The language is clear and the tone is enjoyable, starting from the initial sentences of each chapter based on a literary citations (ranging from Dante Alighieri to Mark Twain). A remarkably valuable aspect is the thorough description of procedures, conventions and techniques that are customarily used by scientists in this field, but are not described in most texts. The treatment of methods like the representation of power laws, the binning of data, and several others ,is of great help for beginners, or experts coming from other fields.
Both students and researches approaching the complex network perspective would benefit from reading this accessible and complete presentation.
In the first part of the book, the core concepts and procedures are reviewed. In the second, a large set of relevant real-world networks are described one by one, including networks in the cell, in finance and in technology, just to mention a few. This description is a precious repository of information for experts coming from other fields and looking for a fresh network perspective on their subjects of research.
The style of the book is highly didactic. It is structured in such a way that it can be read at several different levels, depending on the reader's interests and background. The language is clear and the tone is enjoyable, starting from the initial sentences of each chapter based on a literary citations (ranging from Dante Alighieri to Mark Twain). A remarkably valuable aspect is the thorough description of procedures, conventions and techniques that are customarily used by scientists in this field, but are not described in most texts. The treatment of methods like the representation of power laws, the binning of data, and several others ,is of great help for beginners, or experts coming from other fields.
Both students and researches approaching the complex network perspective would benefit from reading this accessible and complete presentation.
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