Complex Webs : Anticipating the Improbable / Bruce J. West, Paolo Grigolini.

West, Bruce J.
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003/.72
Author
West, Bruce J., author.
Title
Complex Webs : Anticipating the Improbable / Bruce J. West, Paolo Grigolini.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 375 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Webs; 2. Webs, trees and branches; 3. Mostly linear dynamics; 4. Random walks and chaos; 5. Non-analytic dynamics; 6. Brief recent history of webs; 7. Dynamics of chance; 8. Synopsis.
Summary
Complex Webs synthesises modern mathematical developments with a broad range of complex network applications of interest to the engineer and system scientist, presenting the common principles, algorithms, and tools governing network behaviour, dynamics, and complexity. The authors investigate multiple mathematical approaches to inverse power laws and expose the myth of normal statistics to describe natural and man-made networks. Richly illustrated throughout with real-world examples including cell phone use, accessing the Internet, failure of power grids, measures of health and disease, distribution of wealth, and many other familiar phenomena from physiology, bioengineering, biophysics, and informational and social networks, this book makes thought-provoking reading. With explanations of phenomena, diagrams, end-of-chapter problems, and worked examples, it is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in engineering and the life, social, and physical sciences. It is also a perfect introduction for researchers who are interested in this exciting new way of viewing dynamic networks.
Added Author
Grigolini, Paolo, 1940- author.
Subject
Dynamics Statistical methods.
Inverse relationships (Mathematics)
INVERSE PROBLEMS (DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS)
Multimedia
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Summary
Complex Webs synthesises modern mathematical developments with a broad range of complex network applications of interest to the engineer and system scientist, presenting the common principles, algorithms, and tools governing network behaviour, dynamics, and complexity. The authors investigate multiple mathematical approaches to inverse power laws and expose the myth of normal statistics to describe natural and man-made networks. Richly illustrated throughout with real-world examples including cell phone use, accessing the Internet, failure of power grids, measures of health and disease, distribution of wealth, and many other familiar phenomena from physiology, bioengineering, biophysics, and informational and social networks, this book makes thought-provoking reading. With explanations of phenomena, diagrams, end-of-chapter problems, and worked examples, it is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in engineering and the life, social, and physical sciences. It is also a perfect introduction for researchers who are interested in this exciting new way of viewing dynamic networks.
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Webs; 2. Webs, trees and branches; 3. Mostly linear dynamics; 4. Random walks and chaos; 5. Non-analytic dynamics; 6. Brief recent history of webs; 7. Dynamics of chance; 8. Synopsis.
Subject
Dynamics Statistical methods.
Inverse relationships (Mathematics)
INVERSE PROBLEMS (DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS)
Multimedia