Guido Caldarelli, Michele Catanzaro.
Networks: a very short introduction.
OUP. 2012
From ecosystems to Facebook and
from the Internet to the global financial
market, networks play a central role in
nature and society. Phenomena such
as climate change, pandemics, and
financial crises are based on networked
structures; and networks give insights
into how social environments affect
health and behaviour.
In this Very Short Introduction, Guido Caldarelli and Michele Catanzaro discuss the nature and variety of networks, using familiar examples from society, technology, nature, and history. They show how networks self-organize and the role they play in processes like large-scale blackouts and computer virus outbreak. They also describe the wide and important applications of network theory in a range of areas including genetics, ecology, technology, and management