Combinatorics and graph theory

This volume is focused on the emerging concept of Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs).

This book focuses on applications of social network analysis in predictive policing.

With an emphasis on exploring measurable aspects of ancient narratives, Maths Meets Myths sets out to investigate age-old material with new techniques.

This work addresses the topic of philosophical complexity, which shares certain assumptions with scientific complexity, cybernetics, and General Systems Theory, but which is also developing as a subject field in its own right.

Noteworthy results, proof techniques, open problems and conjectures in generalized (edge-) connectivity are discussed in this book.

This book is focused on pancyclic and bipancyclic graphs and is geared toward researchers and graduate students in graph theory.

This is the first in a series of volumes, which provide an extensive overview of conjectures and open problems in graph theory.

The lastdecades have seen the emergence of Complex Networks as the language with whicha wide range of complex phenomena in fields as diverse as Physics, ComputerScience, and Medicine (to name just a few) can be properly described andunderstood.

This book describes kaleidoscopic topics that have developed in the area of graph colorings.

The chapters in this book originate from the research work and contributions presented at the Sixth International Symposium on Recurrence Plots held in Grenoble, France in June 2015.

This volume contains seventeen of the best papers delivered at the SIGMAP Workshop 2014, representing the most recent advances in the field of symmetries of discrete objects and structures, with a particular emphasis on connections between maps, Riemann surfaces and dessins d'enfant.

This book springs from a multidisciplinary, multi-organizational, and multi-sector conversation about the privacy and ethical implications of research in human affairs using big data.

This work provides a careful selection of extended contributions presented at the 2014 ECCS conference and its satellite meetings, reflecting the scope and diversity of both fundamental and applied research areas in the field.

This volume presents easy-to-understand yet surprising properties obtained using topological, geometric and graph theoretic tools in the areas covered by the Geometry Conference that took place in Mulhouse, France from September 7-11, 2014 in honour of Tudor Zamfirescu on the occasion of his 70th anniversary.

This book presents a cross-disciplinaryapproach to smart grids, offering an invaluable basis for understanding theircomplexity and potential, and for discussing their technical, legal, economic, societal, psychologicaland security aspects.

This book provides international perspective for those studying or working in the security domain, from enforcement to policy.

Explaining how graph theory and social network analysis can be applied to team sports analysis, This book presents useful approaches, models and methods that can be used to characterise the overall properties of team networks and identify the prominence of each team player.

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.