EBOOK Networks:An Introduction

The scientific study of networks, including computer networks, social networks,        and biological networks, has received an enormous amount of interest in the last few        years. The rise of the Internet and the wide availability of inexpensive computers        have made it possible to gather and analyze network data on a large scale, and the        development of a variety of new theoretical tools has allowed us to extract new        knowledge from many different kinds of networks. The study of networks isbroadly        interdisciplinary and important developments have occurred in many fields, including        mathematics, physics, computer and information sciences, biology, and the social        sciences. This book brings together for the first time the most important        breakthroughs in each of these fields and presentsthem in a coherent fashion,        highlighting the strong interconnections between work in different areas.Subjects        covered include the measurement and structure of networks in many branches of        science, methods for analyzing network data, including methods developed in physics,        statistics, and sociology, the fundamentals of graph theory, computer algorithms,        and spectral methods, mathematical models of networks, including random graph models        and generative models, and theories of dynamical processes taking place on        networks.