The availability of large data sets has allowed researchers to uncover complex
properties such as large-scale fluctuations and heterogeneities in many networks,
leading to the breakdown of standard theoretical frameworks and models. Until
recently these systems were considered as haphazard sets of points and connections.
Recent advances have generated a vigorous research effort in understanding
the effect of complex connectivity patterns on dynamical phenomena. This book
presents a comprehensive account of these effects.
A vast number of systems, from the brain to ecosystems, power grids and the
Internet, can be represented as large complex networks. This book will interest
graduate students and researchers in many disciplines, from physics and statistical
mechanics, to mathematical biology and information science. Its modular
approach allows readers to readily access the sections of most interest to them,
and complicated maths is avoided so the text can be easily followed by non-experts
in the subject.
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