Ulrik Brandes – författare

This bookconstitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference andSchool of Network Science, NetSci-X 2016, held in Wroclaw, Poland, in January2016.

The 12 fulland 6 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions.The papers deal with the study of network models in domains ranging frombiology and physics to computer science, from financial markets to culturalintegration, and from social media to infectious diseases.

‘Network’ is a heavily overloaded term, so that ‘network analysis’ means different things to different people. Specific forms of network analysis are used in the study of diverse structures such as the Internet, interlocking directorates, transportation systems, epidemic spreading, metabolic pathways, the Web graph, electrical circuits, project plans, and so on. There is, however, a broad methodological foundation which is quickly becoming a prerequisite for researchers and practitioners working with network models.

From a computer science perspective, network analysis is applied graph theory. Unlike standard graph theory books, the content of this book is organized according to methods for specific levels of analysis (element, group, network) rather than abstract concepts like paths, matchings, or spanning subgraphs. Its topics therefore range from vertex centrality to graph clustering and the evolution of scale-free networks.

In 15 coherent chapters, this monograph-like tutorial book introduces and surveys the concepts and methods that drive network analysis, and is thus the first book to do so from a methodological perspective independent of specific application areas.