Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks - Alain Barrat

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Résumé :
An in-depth account on complex connectivity patterns for graduates and researchers in statistical mechanics, mathematical biology and information science.

Biographie:
Alain Barrat is Senior Researcher at the Centre de Physique Th?orique (CNRS and Aix-Marseille University, France) and at the Institute for Scientific Interchange in Turin, Italy. His research interests are in the field of out-of-equilibrium statistical mechanics.

Sommaire:
Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Preliminaries: networks and graphs; 2. Networks and complexity; 3. Network models; 4. Introduction to dynamical processes: theory and simulation; 5. Phase transitions on complex networks; 6. Resilience and robustness of networks; 7. Synchronization phenomena in networks; 8. Walking and searching on networks; 9. Epidemic spreading in population networks; 10. Social networks and collective behavior; 11. Traffic on complex networks; 12. Networks in biology: from the cell to ecosystems; 13. Postface: critically examining complex networks science; Appendixes; References; Index.