Dynamics on and of Complex Networks: Applications to Biology, Computer Science, and the Social Sciences (Hardcover)

Preface List of Contributors Part I. Biological Sciences From Network Structure to Dynamics and Back Again: Relating Dynamical Stability and Connection Topology in Biological Complex Systems \ Sitabhra Sinha Regulation of Apoptosis via the NFkB Pathway: Modeling and Analysis / Madalena Chaves, Thomas Eissing, Frank Allgower Network-Based Models in Molecular Biology / Andreas Beyer Ecological Networks: Structure, Interaction Strength, and Stability / Samit Bhattacharyya, Somdatta Sinha Signaling and Feedback in Biological Networks / Sandeep Krishna, Mogens H. Jensen, Kim Sneppen Part II. Social Sciences Topographic Spreading Analysis of an Empirical Sex Workers' Network / Johannes Bjelland, Geoffrey Canright, Kenth Engø-Monsen, Valencia P. Remple Spectral Characterization of Network Structures and Dynamics / Anirban Banerjee, Jurgen Jost Dynamics of Social Complex Networks: Some Insights into Recent Research / Sergi Lozano The Structure and Dynamics of Linguistic Networks / Monojit Choudhury, Animesh Mukherjee Networks Generated From Natural Language Text / Chris Biemann, Uwe Quasthoff Part III. Information Sciences Efficiency of Navigation in Indexed Networks / Petter Holme Evolution of Apache Open Source Software / Haoran Wen, Raissa M. D'Souza, Zachary M. Saul, Vladimir Filkov Some New Applications of Network Growth Models / Gourab Ghoshal The Big Friendly Giant: The Giant Component in Clustered Random Graphs / Yakir Berchenko, Yael Artzy-Randrup, Mina Teicher, Lewi Stone Technological Networks / Bivas Mitra Advances in the Theory of Complex Networks / Fernando Peruani Glossary of Essential Terms Index