Scale-Free Networks: Complex Webs in Nature and Technology. Oxford Finance.

by Guido Caldarelli

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 '>' 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.

309 pages, ebook

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.