Complex Webs: Anticipating the Improbable Book

Complex Webs synthesises modern mathematical developments with a broad range of complex network applications of interest to the engineer and system scientist presenting the common principles algorithms and tools governing network behaviour dynamics and complexity. The authors investigate multiple mathematical approaches to inverse power laws and expose the myth of normal statistics to describe natural and man-made networks. Richly illustrated throughout with real-world examples including cell phone use accessing the Internet failure of power grids measures of health and disease distribution of wealth and many other familiar phenomena from physiology bioengineering biophysics and informational and social networks this book makes thought-provoking reading. With explanations of phenomena diagrams end-of-chapter problems and worked examples it is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in engineering and the life social and physical sciences. It is also a perfect introduction for researchers who are interested in this exciting new way of viewing dynamic networks.