Scale-Free Networks: Complex Webs in Nature and Technology

by Guido Caldarelli

A variety of different social, natural and technological systems can be described by the same mathematical framework. This holds from Internet to the Food Webs and to the connections between different company boards given by common directors. In all these situations a graph of the elements and their connections displays a universal feature of some few elements with many connections and many with few. This book reports the experimental evidence of these ``Scale-free networks'' and provides to students and researchers a corpus of theoretical results and algorithms to analyse and understand these features. The contents of this book and their exposition makes it a clear textbook for the beginners and a reference book for the experts.

309 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2007

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a very poorly edited but also a very useful book. I wish I could not recommend it but it's the only book I've found that really builds up a lot of the concepts and examples used in complex network research in the 21st century. So until something better comes along, recommended.