By Nicolas Dugué, Anthony Perez (auth.), Gourab Ghoshal, Julia Poncela-Casasnovas, Robert Tolksdorf (eds.)

A community is a mathematical item which include a collection of issues (called vertices or nodes) which are attached to one another in a few type via traces (called edges). seems this easy description corresponds to a bewildering array of structures within the actual global, starting from technological ones similar to the net and world-wide-web, organic networks resembling that of connections of the anxious structures or blood vessels, nutrition webs, protein interactions, infrastructural platforms corresponding to networks of roads, airports or the power-grid, to styles of social acquaintance similar to friendship, community of Hollywood actors, connections among enterprise homes and plenty of extra.

Recent years have witnessed a great deal of curiosity in the clinical neighborhood within the homes of those networks. The emergence of the web particularly, coupled with the common availability of cheap computing assets has facilitated reports starting from huge scale empirical research of networks within the genuine global, to the improvement of theoretical types and instruments to discover a number of the houses of those structures. The learn of networks is widely interdisciplinary and significant advancements have happened in lots of fields, together with arithmetic, physics, laptop and knowledge sciences, biology, and the social sciences.

This e-book brings jointly a suite of state of the art examine within the box from a various array of researchers starting from physicists to social scientists, and offers them in a coherent type, highlighting the robust interconnections among different parts. themes incorporated are social networks and social media, opinion and innovation diffusion, syncronization, transportation networks and human mobility, in addition to concept, modeling and metrics of complicated Networks.