relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1881/
title: Complex networks theory for policy making and planning: a research agenda
creator: De Montis, Andrea
creator: Chessa, Alessandro
creator: Campagna, Michele
creator: Caschili, Simone
creator: Deplano, Giancarlo
subject: QC Physics
description: The emerging new Science of Networks is providing an elegant paradigm for the characterization of the broad area of Complex Systems. New research perspectives have been opened in the study of many real phenomena and processes, and recently fields like urban, regional, and environmental sciences have gained new insights from the tools provided  by Network Science. The complex networks analysis becomes a useful framework in these fields to disentangle problems of a complex and unpredictable nature.  This paper presents a research agenda on a number of operative tools borrowed from complex network analysis for regional studies: the comparative analysis of commuting systems, the investigation on the influence of spatial properties on complex networks, the detection of  communities in commuting systems and the integration between network analysis and geographical information systems.
date: 2007
type: Conference or Workshop Item
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   De Montis, Andrea and Chessa, Alessandro and Campagna, Michele and Caschili, Simone and Deplano, Giancarlo  Complex networks theory for policy making and planning: a research agenda.  In: IPL - Workshop on Complexity, evolution and learning: in search of implicity, September 20-22, 2007, Lochem/Barchen, The Netherlands       (Submitted)   (2007)