A First Course in Network Science 1108471137, 9781108471138
Networks are everywhere: networks of friends, transportation networks and the Web. Neurons in our brains and proteins wi
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Table of contents :
Preface
Acknowledgments
0 Introduction
0.1 Social Networks
0.2 Communication Networks
0.3 The Web and Wikipedia
0.4 The Internet
0.5 Transportation Networks
0.6 Biological Networks
0.7 Summary
0.8 Further Reading
Exercises
1 Network Elements
1.1 Basic Definitions
1.2 Handling Networks in Code
1.3 Density and Sparsity
1.4 Subnetworks
1.5 Degree
1.6 Directed Networks
1.7 Weighted Networks
1.8 Multilayer and Temporal Networks
1.9 Network Representations
1.10 Drawing Networks
1.11 Summary
1.12 Further Reading
Exercises
2 Small Worlds
2.1 Birds of a Feather
2.2 Paths and Distances
2.3 Connectedness and Components
2.4 Trees
2.5 Finding Shortest Paths
2.6 Social Distance
2.7 Six Degrees of Separation
2.8 Friend of a Friend
2.9 Summary
2.10 Further Reading
Exercises
3 Hubs
3.1 Centrality Measures
3.2 Centrality Distributions
3.3 The Friendship Paradox
3.4 Ultra-Small Worlds
3.5 Robustness
3.6 Core Decomposition
3.7 Summary
3.8 Further Reading
Exercises
4 Directions and Weights
4.1 Directed Networks
4.2 The Web
4.3 PageRank
4.4 Weighted Networks
4.5 Information and Misinformation
4.6 Co-occurrence Networks
4.7 Weight Heterogeneity
4.8 Summary
4.9 Further Reading
Exercises
5 Network Models
5.1 Random Networks
5.2 Small Worlds
5.3 Configuration Model
5.4 Preferential Attachment
5.5 Other Preferential Models
5.6 Summary
5.7 Further Reading
Exercises
6 Communities
6.1 Basic Definitions
6.2 Related Problems
6.3 Community Detection
6.4 Method Evaluation
6.5 Summary
6.6 Further Reading
Exercises
7 Dynamics
7.1 Ideas, Information, Influence
7.2 Epidemic Spreading
7.3 Opinion Dynamics
7.4 Search
7.5 Summary
7.6 Further Reading
Exercises
Appendix A Python Tutorial
A.1 Jupyter Notebook
A.2 Conditionals
A.3 Lists
A.4 Loops
A.5 Tuples
A.6 Dictionaries
A.7 Combining Data Types
Appendix B NetLogo Models
B.1 PageRank
B.2 Giant Component
B.3 Small Worlds
B.4 Preferential Attachment
B.5 Virus on a Network
B.6 Language Change
References
Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
0 Introduction
0.1 Social Networks
0.2 Communication Networks
0.3 The Web and Wikipedia
0.4 The Internet
0.5 Transportation Networks
0.6 Biological Networks
0.7 Summary
0.8 Further Reading
Exercises
1 Network Elements
1.1 Basic Definitions
1.2 Handling Networks in Code
1.3 Density and Sparsity
1.4 Subnetworks
1.5 Degree
1.6 Directed Networks
1.7 Weighted Networks
1.8 Multilayer and Temporal Networks
1.9 Network Representations
1.10 Drawing Networks
1.11 Summary
1.12 Further Reading
Exercises
2 Small Worlds
2.1 Birds of a Feather
2.2 Paths and Distances
2.3 Connectedness and Components
2.4 Trees
2.5 Finding Shortest Paths
2.6 Social Distance
2.7 Six Degrees of Separation
2.8 Friend of a Friend
2.9 Summary
2.10 Further Reading
Exercises
3 Hubs
3.1 Centrality Measures
3.2 Centrality Distributions
3.3 The Friendship Paradox
3.4 Ultra-Small Worlds
3.5 Robustness
3.6 Core Decomposition
3.7 Summary
3.8 Further Reading
Exercises
4 Directions and Weights
4.1 Directed Networks
4.2 The Web
4.3 PageRank
4.4 Weighted Networks
4.5 Information and Misinformation
4.6 Co-occurrence Networks
4.7 Weight Heterogeneity
4.8 Summary
4.9 Further Reading
Exercises
5 Network Models
5.1 Random Networks
5.2 Small Worlds
5.3 Configuration Model
5.4 Preferential Attachment
5.5 Other Preferential Models
5.6 Summary
5.7 Further Reading
Exercises
6 Communities
6.1 Basic Definitions
6.2 Related Problems
6.3 Community Detection
6.4 Method Evaluation
6.5 Summary
6.6 Further Reading
Exercises
7 Dynamics
7.1 Ideas, Information, Influence
7.2 Epidemic Spreading
7.3 Opinion Dynamics
7.4 Search
7.5 Summary
7.6 Further Reading
Exercises
Appendix A Python Tutorial
A.1 Jupyter Notebook
A.2 Conditionals
A.3 Lists
A.4 Loops
A.5 Tuples
A.6 Dictionaries
A.7 Combining Data Types
Appendix B NetLogo Models
B.1 PageRank
B.2 Giant Component
B.3 Small Worlds
B.4 Preferential Attachment
B.5 Virus on a Network
B.6 Language Change
References
Index
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- Clayton A. Davis
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