Combinatorics and graph theory

This volume is a tutorial for the study of dynamical systems on networks.

The book covers nonlinear physical problems and mathematical modeling, including molecular biology, genetics, neurosciences, artificial intelligence with classical problems in mechanics and astronomy and physics.

This book covers the modelling of human behaviour in the education and labour markets, which due to their interdependency are viewed as one system.

This research aims to achieve a fundamental understanding of synchronization and its interplay with the topology of complex networks.

Current developments in air pollution modelling are explored as a series of contributions from researchers at the forefront of their field.

This book contains the proceedings of the Sixth National Conference of the Italian Systems Society.

This volume provides an introduction to and overview of the emerging field of interconnected networks which include multilayer or multiplex networks, as well as networks of networks.

This book introduces novel techniques and algorithms necessary to support the formation of social networks.

This book explores mobilities as a key to understanding the practices that both frame and generate contemporary everyday life in the urban context.

This work tackles the problems of understanding how energy is transmitted and distributed in power-grids as well as in determining how robust this transmission and distribution is when modifications to the grid or power occur.

This textbook provides an introduction to the Catalan numbers and their remarkable properties, along with their various applications in combinatorics.

This monograph covers different aspects of sensor network security including new emerging technologies.

This book develops a morphodynamical approach of spatial networks with a particular emphasis on infrastructure networks such as streets, roads and transportation networks (subway, train).

A comprehensive treatment of color-induced graph colorings is presented in this book, emphasizing vertex colorings induced by edge colorings.

This book was motivated by the notion that some of the underlying difficulty in challenging instances of graph-based problems (e.

This collection of contributed chapters demonstrates a wide range of applications within two overlapping research domains: social media analysis and social network analysis.

The volume presents, in a synergistic manner, significant theoretical and practical contributions in the area of social media reputation and authorship measurement, visualization, and modeling.

This book presents the features and advantages offered by complex networks in the machine learning domain.

Introducing the reader to the mathematics beyond complex networked systems, these lecture notes investigate graph theory, graphical models, and methods from statistical physics.

Dynamical models on graphs or random graphs are increasingly used in applied sciences as mathematical tools to study complex systems whose exact structure is too complicated to be known in detail.

This compact reference surveys the full range of available structural equation modeling (SEM) methodologies.

This primer offers readers an introduction to the central concepts that form our modern understanding of complex and emergent behavior, together with detailed coverage of accompanying mathematical methods.

This book focuses on increasing the energy-efficiency of electronic devices so that portable applications can have a longer stand-alone time on the same battery.

This thesis analyzes and explores the design of controlled networked dynamic systems - dubbed semi-autonomous networks.

This edited volume offers a clear in-depth overview of research covering a variety of issues in social search and recommendation systems.

This book explores the use of technology to detect, predict and understand social cues, in order to analyze and prevent conflict.

This edited volume addresses the vast challenges of adapting Online Social Media (OSM) to developing research methods and applications.

This thesis focuses on the dynamics of autonomous Boolean networks, on the basis of Boolean logic functions in continuous time without external clocking.

This book introduces the fundamental concepts of homomorphic encryption.

This book is devoted to recent progress in social network analysis with a high focus on community detection and evolution.

With the unifying theme of abstract evolutionary equations, both linear and nonlinear, in a complex environment, the book presents a multidisciplinary blend of topics, spanning the fields of theoretical and applied functional analysis, partial differential equations, probability theory and numerical analysis applied to various models coming from theoretical physics, biology, engineering and complexity theory.

The book gives a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art research and engineering in theory and application of Lattice Automata in design and control of autonomous Robots.

The present book includes a set of selected papers from the tenth "e;International Conference on Informatics in Control Automation and Robotics"e; (ICINCO 2013), held in Reykjavik, Iceland, from 29 to 31 July 2013.

The book you hold in your hands is the outcome of the "e;2014 Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems"e; held in the historical city of Florence.

This volume compiles the major results of conference participants from the "e;Third International Conference in Network Analysis"e; held at the Higher School of Economics, Nizhny Novgorod in May 2013, with the aim to initiate further joint research among different groups.

These proceedings from the 2013 symposium on "e;Chaos, complexity and leadership"e; reflect current research results from all branches of Chaos, Complex Systems and their applications in Management.

Using network models to investigate the interconnectivity in modern economic systems allows researchers to better understand and explain some economic phenomena.

The book focuses on Social Collective Intelligence, a term used to denote a class of socio-technical systems that combine, in a coordinated way, the strengths of humans, machines and collectives in terms of competences, knowledge and problem solving capabilities with the communication, computing and storage capabilities of advanced ICT.

This book is an intellectually stimulating excursion into mathematical machines and structures capable for a universal computation.

Computer simulation-based education and training is a multi-billion dollar industry.

The primary intent of the book is to introduce an array of beautiful problems in a variety of subjects quickly, pithily and completely rigorously to graduate students and advanced undergraduates.

What makes the 21st century different from the 20th century?

A persistent problem when finding communities in large complex networks is the so-called resolution limit.

Knowledge and expertise, especially of the kind that can shape public opinion, have been traditionally the domain of individuals holding degrees awarded by higher learning institutions or occupying formal positions in notable organizations.

Social network analysis increasingly bridges the discovery of patterns in diverse areas of study as more data becomes available and complex.

Networks of Echoes: Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders is a mathematically rigorous and data rich book on a fascinating area of the science and engineering of social webs.

This concise text is based on a series of lectures held only a few years ago and originally intended as an introduction to known results on linear hyperbolic and parabolic equations.

Recent developments in air pollution modelling are explored as a series of contributions from researchers at the forefront of their field.

Networks and Network Analysis for Defence and Security discusses relevant theoretical frameworks and applications of network analysis in support of the defence and security domains.

The present work is meant as a reference to provide an organic and comprehensive view of the most relevant results in the exciting new field of Networks of Networks (NetoNets).