The structure of complex networks : theory and applications / Ernesto Estrada.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Estrada, Ernesto, 1966-

Contributor:

Dhiren H. Shah W'82 and Katherine M. Shah Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

System analysis.

Physical Description:

xii, 465 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Summary:

"This book deals with the analysis of the structure of complex networks by combining results from graph theory, physics, and pattern recognition. The book is divided into two parts. 11 chapters are dedicated to the development of theoretical tools for the structural analysis of networks, and 7 chapters are illustrating, in a critical way, applications of these tools to real-world scenarios. The first chapters provide detailed coverage of adjacency and metric and topological properties of networks, followed by chapters devoted to the analysis of individual fragments and fragment-based global invariants in complex networks. Chapters that analyse the concepts of communicability, centrality, bipartivity, expansibility and communities in networks follow. The second part of this book is devoted to the analysis of genetic, protein residue, protein-protein interaction, intercellular, ecological and socio-economic networks, including important breakthroughs as well as examples of the misuse of structural concepts"-- Provided by publisher.

"Readership Graduate students and researchers in the field of complex networks, mathematical chemistry, theoretical and computational biology, and social networks. Short Description The book integrates approaches from mathematics, physics and computer sciences to analyse the organisation of complex networks. Every organisational principle of networks is defined, quantified and then analysed for its influences on the properties and functions of molecular, biological, ecological and social networks"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

1. Introduction

2. Adjacency Relationships in Networks

3. Metric and Topological Structure of Networks

4. Fragments (Subgraphs) in Complex Networks

5. Accounting for all parts (subgraphs)

6. Communicability Functions in Networks

7. Centrality Measures

8. Global Network Invariants

9. Expansion and Network Classes

10. Community Structure in Networks

11. Network Bipartivity

12. Random Models of Networks

13. Genetic Networks

14. Protein Residue Networks

15. Protein-protein Interaction Networks

16. The Structure of Reaction Networks

17. Intercellular Networks

18. Networks in Ecology

19. Socio-Economic Networks

20. Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dhiren H. Shah W'82 and Katherine M. Shah Fund.

ISBN:

019959175X

9780199591756

OCLC:

744297055

Publisher Number:

99949912112