Structural Analysis of Complex Networks - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0817647880 ISBN 13: 9780817647889

Publisher: Birkhäuser, 2010

Synopsis

Filling a gap in literature, this self-contained book presents theoretical and application-oriented results that allow for a structural exploration of complex networks. The work focuses not only on classical graph-theoretic methods, but also demonstrates the usefulness of structural graph theory as a tool for solving interdisciplinary problems. Applications to biology, chemistry, linguistics, and data analysis are emphasized.

The book is suitable for a broad, interdisciplinary readership of researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in discrete mathematics, statistics, computer science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, computational and systems biology, cognitive science, computational linguistics, and mathematical chemistry. It may also be used as a supplementary textbook in graduate-level seminars on structural graph analysis, complex networks, or network-based machine learning methods.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Because of the increasing complexity and growth of real-world networks, their analysis by using classical graph-theoretic methods is oftentimes a difficult procedure. As a result, there is a strong need to combine graph-theoretic methods with mathematical techniques from other scientific disciplines, such as machine learning and information theory, in order to analyze complex networks more adequately.

Filling a gap in literature, this self-contained book presents theoretical and application-oriented results to structurally explore complex networks. The work focuses not only on classical graph-theoretic methods, but also demonstrates the usefulness of structural graph theory as a tool for solving interdisciplinary problems.

Special emphasis is given to methods related to the following areas:

* Applications to biology, chemistry, linguistics, and data analysis

* Graph colorings

* Graph polynomials

* Information measures for graphs

* Metrical properties of graphs

* Partitions and decompositions

* Quantitative graph measures

Structural Analysis of Complex Networks is suitable for a broad, interdisciplinary readership of researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in discrete mathematics, statistics, computer science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, computational and systems biology, cognitive science, computational linguistics, and mathematical chemistry. The book may be used as a supplementary textbook in graduate-level seminars on structural graph analysis, complex networks, or network-based machine learning methods.

Review:

From the reviews:

“The book Structural Analysis of Complex Networks presents theoretical as well as practice-oriented results for structurally exploring networks, combining graph-theoretic methods with mathematical techniques from other scientific disciplines such as machine learning, statistics and information theory. ... the book is addressed to an interdisciplinary audience, covering topics from artificial intelligence, computer science, computational and systems biology, cognitive science, computational linguistics, discrete mathematics, machine learning, mathematical chemistry and statistics.” (Sanzaiana Caraman, IASI Polytechnic Magazine, Vol. 22 (1/4), March-December, 2010)

About this edition

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0817647880
• ISBN 13: 9780817647889
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 500
• Editor: Dehmer Matthias