The Atlas For The Aspiring Network Scientist
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Author |
: Michele Coscia |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 664 |
Release |
: 2021-01-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 8797282405 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9788797282403 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Atlas for the Aspiring Network Scientist by : Michele Coscia
Network science is the field dedicated to the investigation and analysis of complex systems via their representations as networks. We normally model such networks as graphs: sets of nodes connected by sets of edges and a number of node and edge attributes. This deceptively simple object is the starting point of never-ending complexity, due to its ability to represent almost every facet of reality: chemical interactions, protein pathways inside cells, neural connections inside the brain, scientific collaborations, financial relations, citations in art history, just to name a few examples. If we hope to make sense of complex networks, we need to master a large analytic toolbox: graph and probability theory, linear algebra, statistical physics, machine learning, combinatorics, and more. This book aims at providing the first access to all these tools. It is intended as an "Atlas", because its interest is not in making you a specialist in using any of these techniques. Rather, after reading this book, you will have a general understanding about the existence and the mechanics of all these approaches. You can use such an understanding as the starting point of your own career in the field of network science. This has been, so far, an interdisciplinary endeavor. The founding fathers of this field come from many different backgrounds: mathematics, sociology, computer science, physics, history, digital humanities, and more. This Atlas is charting your path to be something different from all of that: a pure network scientist.
Author |
: Tom Brughmans |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 361 |
Release |
: 2023-04-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781009170666 |
ISBN-13 |
: 100917066X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Network Science in Archaeology by : Tom Brughmans
The Cambridge Manual to Archaeological Network Science provides the first comprehensive guide to a field of research that has firmly established itself within archaeological practice in recent years. Network science methods are commonly used to explore big archaeological datasets and are essential for the formal study of past relational phenomena: social networks, transport systems, communication, and exchange. The volume offers a step-by-step description of network science methods and explores its theoretical foundations and applications in archaeological research, which are elaborately illustrated with archaeological examples. It also covers a vast range of network science techniques that can enhance archaeological research, including network data collection and management, exploratory network analysis, sampling issues and sensitivity analysis, spatial networks, and network visualisation. An essential reference handbook for both beginning and experienced archaeological network researchers, the volume includes boxes with definitions, boxed examples, exercises, and online supplementary learning and teaching materials.
Author |
: Remco van der Hofstad |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 507 |
Release |
: 2024-02-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107174009 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107174007 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Random Graphs and Complex Networks by : Remco van der Hofstad
The definitive introduction to the local and global structure of random graph models for complex networks.
Author |
: Albert-László Barabási |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 477 |
Release |
: 2016-07-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107076266 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107076269 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Network Science by : Albert-László Barabási
Illustrated throughout in full colour, this pioneering text is the only book you need for an introduction to network science.
Author |
: Filippo Menczer |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 275 |
Release |
: 2020-01-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108579612 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108579612 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis A First Course in Network Science by : Filippo Menczer
Networks are everywhere: networks of friends, transportation networks and the Web. Neurons in our brains and proteins within our bodies form networks that determine our intelligence and survival. This modern, accessible textbook introduces the basics of network science for a wide range of job sectors from management to marketing, from biology to engineering, and from neuroscience to the social sciences. Students will develop important, practical skills and learn to write code for using networks in their areas of interest - even as they are just learning to program with Python. Extensive sets of tutorials and homework problems provide plenty of hands-on practice and longer programming tutorials online further enhance students' programming skills. This intuitive and direct approach makes the book ideal for a first course, aimed at a wide audience without a strong background in mathematics or computing but with a desire to learn the fundamentals and applications of network science.
Author |
: Thomas J. Sargent |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2024-04-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781009456371 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1009456377 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Economic Networks by : Thomas J. Sargent
It has become increasingly clear that economies can fruitfully be viewed as networks, consisting of millions of nodes (households, firms, banks, etc.) connected by business, social, and legal relationships. These relationships shape many outcomes that economists often measure. Over the past few years, research on production networks has flourished, as economists try to understand supply-side dynamics, default cascades, aggregate fluctuations, and many other phenomena. Economic Networks provides a brisk introduction to network analysis that is self-contained, rigorous, and illustrated with many figures, diagrams and listings with computer code. Network methods are put to work analyzing production networks, financial networks, and other related topics (including optimal transport, another highly active research field). Visualizations using recent data bring key ideas to life.
Author |
: Ernesto Estrada |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2010-08-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781849963961 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1849963967 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Network Science by : Ernesto Estrada
Network Science is the emerging field concerned with the study of large, realistic networks. This interdisciplinary endeavor, focusing on the patterns of interactions that arise between individual components of natural and engineered systems, has been applied to data sets from activities as diverse as high-throughput biological experiments, online trading information, smart-meter utility supplies, and pervasive telecommunications and surveillance technologies. This unique text/reference provides a fascinating insight into the state of the art in network science, highlighting the commonality across very different areas of application and the ways in which each area can be advanced by injecting ideas and techniques from another. The book includes contributions from an international selection of experts, providing viewpoints from a broad range of disciplines. It emphasizes networks that arise in nature—such as food webs, protein interactions, gene expression, and neural connections—and in technology—such as finance, airline transport, urban development and global trade. Topics and Features: begins with a clear overview chapter to introduce this interdisciplinary field; discusses the classic network science of fixed connectivity structures, including empirical studies, mathematical models and computational algorithms; examines time-dependent processes that take place over networks, covering topics such as synchronisation, and message passing algorithms; investigates time-evolving networks, such as the World Wide Web and shifts in topological properties (connectivity, spectrum, percolation); explores applications of complex networks in the physical and engineering sciences, looking ahead to new developments in the field. Researchers and professionals from disciplines as varied as computer science, mathematics, engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, neuroscience, epidemiology, and the social sciences will all benefit from this topical and broad overview of current activities and grand challenges in the unfolding field of network science.
Author |
: Ted G. Lewis |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 440 |
Release |
: 2011-09-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781118211014 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1118211014 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Network Science by : Ted G. Lewis
A comprehensive look at the emerging science of networks Network science helps you design faster, more resilient communication networks; revise infrastructure systems such as electrical power grids, telecommunications networks, and airline routes; model market dynamics; understand synchronization in biological systems; and analyze social interactions among people. This is the first book to take a comprehensive look at this emerging science. It examines the various kinds of networks (regular, random, small-world, influence, scale-free, and social) and applies network processes and behaviors to emergence, epidemics, synchrony, and risk. The book's uniqueness lies in its integration of concepts across computer science, biology, physics, social network analysis, economics, and marketing. The book is divided into easy-to-understand topical chapters and the presentation is augmented with clear illustrations, problems and answers, examples, applications, tutorials, and a discussion of related Java software. Chapters cover: Origins Graphs Regular Networks Random Networks Small-World Networks Scale-Free Networks Emergence Epidemics Synchrony Influence Networks Vulnerability Net Gain Biology This book offers a new understanding and interpretation of the field of network science. It is an indispensable resource for researchers, professionals, and technicians in engineering, computing, and biology. It also serves as a valuable textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in related fields of study.
Author |
: Vasilis Galis |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2022-07-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781538165171 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1538165171 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Migration Mobile by : Vasilis Galis
The Migration Mobile offers an account of the very different technologies implicated in border crossing and migration management. Borders have been sites of contestations and struggles over who belongs and who does not, who is and is not allowed to move freely in transnational or national spaces. Embedded as they are in the bordering process, policing and security practices produce the irregularity and illegitimacy of the migrating subject. At the same time, border practices simultaneously imply processes of dissidence and resistance. Border infrastructures and resistance to bordering practices refer to dynamic and complex interactions between migrants and non-human others, technologies at the borderland and elsewhere. Border guards, EU officials, Frontex officers, activists, NGOs and solidarity networks configure both hybrid alliances of humans/nonhumans and new virtual and urban spaces in order to enforce or resist bordering. Through analyses of empirical cases drawing from the European border regimes the book investigates how technologies employed by states and EU border agencies configure the border regimes; how spaces of migration are configured through uses and re-uses of high-tech technologies; and finally on how the border regimes and ‘the border industrial complex’ are contested reconfigured by the use of ICT by migrants and solidarity networks.
Author |
: Francesca Biagini |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 119 |
Release |
: 2020-11-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3030268160 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783030268169 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Network Science by : Francesca Biagini
This book provides an overview of network science from the perspective of diverse academic fields, offering insights into the various research areas within network science. The authoritative contributions on statistical network analysis, mathematical network science, genetic networks, Bayesian networks, network visualisation, and systemic risk in networks explore the main questions in the respective fields: What has been achieved to date? What are the research challenges and obstacles? What are the possible interconnections with other fields? And how can cross-fertilization between these fields be promoted? Network science comprises numerous scientific disciplines, including computer science, economics, mathematics, statistics, social sciences, bioinformatics, and medicine, among many others. These diverse research areas require and use different data-analytic and numerical methods as well as different theoretical approaches. Nevertheless, they all examine and describe interdependencies, associations, and relationships of entities in different kinds of networks. The book is intended for researchers as well as interested readers working in network science who want to learn more about the field – beyond their own research or work niche. Presenting network science from different perspectives without going into too much technical detail, it allows readers to gain an overview without having to be a specialist in any or all of these disciplines.