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With the advent of digital computers more than half a century ago, - searchers working in a wide range of scienti?c disciplines have obtained an extremely powerful tool to pursue deep understanding of natural processes in physical, chemical, and biological systems. Computers pose a great ch- lenge to mathematical sciences, as the range of phenomena available for rigorous mathematical analysis has been enormously expanded, demanding the development of a new generation of mathematical tools. There is an explosive growth of new mathematical disciplines to satisfy this demand, in particular related to discrete mathematics. However, it can be argued that at large mathematics is yet to provide the essential breakthrough to meet the challenge. The required paradigm shift in our view should be compa- ble to the shift in scienti?c thinking provided by the Newtonian revolution over 300 years ago. Studies of large-scale random graphs and networks are critical for the progress, using methods of discrete mathematics, probabil- tic combinatorics, graph theory, and statistical physics. Recent advances in large scale random network studies are described in this handbook, which provides a signi?cant update and extension - yond the materials presented in the “Handbook of Graphs and Networks” published in 2003 by Wiley. The present volume puts special emphasis on large-scale networks and random processes, which deemed as crucial for - tureprogressinthe?eld. Theissuesrelatedtorandomgraphsandnetworks pose very di?cult mathematical questions.

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Author:   Bela Bollobas ,  Robert Kozma ,  Dezso Miklos
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   2009 ed.
Volume:   18
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.093kg
ISBN:  

9783540693949

ISBN 10:   3540693947
Pages:   600
Publication Date:   20 July 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: Theoretical Foundations Chapter 1 Random graphs and branching processes Bela Bollobas and Oliver Riordan (Cambridge University, UK) Chapter 2 Sentry Selection in wireless networks Paul Balister and Bela Bollobas (U of Memphis, TN, and Cambridge University, UK) Amites Sarkar and Mark Walters Chapter 3 Scaling properties of complex networks and spanning trees Reuven Cohen and Shlomo Havlin, (MIT, USA) Chapter 4 Random Tree Growth with Branching Processes – a Survey Anna Rudas and Balint Toth ( Technical University, Budapest, Hungary) Part II. Large-scale networks in biological systems Chapter 5 Reaction-diffusion processes in scale-free networks Michele Catanzaro, Marian Boguna, and Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, (U Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain) Chapter 6 Toward Understanding the Structure and Function of Cellular Interaction Networks C. Christensen, J. Thakar and R. Albert (Penn State University, PA, USA) Chapter 7 Scale-Free Cortical Planar Networks Bela Bollobas (Cambridge University, UK), Walter J Freeman (UC Berkeley, CA), Robert Kozma (U of Memphis, TN, USA) Chapter 8 Reconstructing Cortical Networks: Case of Directed Graphs with High Level of Reciprocity Nepusz P., Bazso F, (KFKI, Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Negyessy L. (Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest, Hungary) Tusnady G. (Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Part III. Large-scale networks in physics, technology, and the society Chapter 9 k-clique percolation and clustering Gergely Palla1, Daniel Abel, Illes J. Farkas, Peter Pollner, Imre Derenyi Tamas Vicsek (Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary) Chapter 10 The inverse problem of evolving networks — with application to social nets Gabor Csardi, Katherine J. Strandburg, Jan Tobochnik, and Peter Erdi, (KFKI, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary and Kalamazoo College, Mi, USA) Chapter 11 Learning and Representation: From Compressive Sampling to Szemerédi’s Regularity Lemma Andras Lorincz (Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary) Chapter 12 Telephone Call Network Data Mining: A Survey with Experiments Andras A. Benczur, Karoly Csalogany, Miklos Kurucz, Andras Lukacs, Laszlo Lukacs, David Siklosi (Computer and Automation Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)

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From the reviews: It is a collection of papers on advances in the field of large-scale networks ! . The material presented here is based on a workshop organized in Budapest in 2006. ! An ideal reader of the book may be a mathematician ! . (Miklos Bona, The Mathematical Association of America, February, 2010) The volume is an outcome of a U.S.-Hungarian workshop on complex networks held at the Renyi Istitute in Budapest in 2006. ! I quite enjoyed reading the book. The choice of topics and presentations is illustrative of the type of work taking place in this area ! . are likely to be useful to the theoretical computer scientist interested in random structures and algorithms, but most of the chapters were reasonably interesting to me. (Gabriel Istrate, SIGACT News, April, 2012)

From the reviews: It is a collection of papers on advances in the field of large-scale networks ! . The material presented here is based on a workshop organized in Budapest in 2006. ! An ideal reader of the book may be a mathematician ! . (Miklos Bona, The Mathematical Association of America, February, 2010)

From the reviews: It is a collection of papers on advances in the field of large-scale networks ! . The material presented here is based on a workshop organized in Budapest in 2006. ! An ideal reader of the book may be a mathematician ! . (Miklos Bona, The Mathematical Association of America, February, 2010)

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