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rev_number: 11
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datestamp: 2012-02-27 09:59:42
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type: book
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creators_name: Caldarelli, Guido
creators_name: Catanzaro, Michele
creators_id: guido.caldarelli@imtlucca.it
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title: Networks: a very short introduction
ispublished: pub
subjects: H1
subjects: QA75
subjects: QC
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: none
abstract: From ecosystems to Facebook, from the Internet to the global financial market, some of the most important and familiar natural systems and social phenomena are based on a networked structure. It is impossible to understand the spread of an epidemic, a computer virus, large-scale blackouts, or massive extinctions without taking into account the network structure that underlies all these phenomena.
In this Very Short Introduction, Guido Caldarelli and Michele Catanzaro discuss the nature and variety of networks, using everyday examples from society, technology, nature, and history to explain and understand the science of network theory. They show the ubiquitous role of networks; how networks self-organize; why the rich get richer; and how networks can spontaneously collapse. They conclude by highlighting how the findings of complex network theory have very wide and important applications in genetics, ecology, communications, economics, and sociology.
date: 2012
date_type: published
series: Very Short Introductions
publisher: Oxford University Press
place_of_pub: Oxford
pages: 136
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-0-19-958807-7
related_url_url: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199588077.do#.UJD9KWeWPcw
related_url_type: pub
citation:   Caldarelli, Guido and Catanzaro, Michele  Networks: a very short introduction.    Very Short Introductions .  Oxford University Press, Oxford.  ISBN 978-0-19-958807-7      (2012)