Towards an Information Theory of Complex Networks

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -For over a decade, complex networks have steadily grown as an important tool across abroad array of academic disciplines, with applications ranging from physics to social media.A tightly organized collectionofcarefully-selected papers on the subject, Towards an Information Theory of Complex Networks: Statistical Methods and Applications presents theoretical and practical results about information-theoretic and statistical models of complex networks in the natural sciences and humanities.The book'smajor goal is to advocate and promote a combination of graph-theoretic, information-theoretic, and statistical methods as a way to better understand and characterize real-world networks.This volume is the first to present a self-contained, comprehensive overview of information-theoretic modelsof complex networks with an emphasis on applications. As such, itmarks a first step toward establishing advanced statistical information theory as a unified theoretical basis of complex networksfor allscientific disciplines andcan serve asa valuable resource foradiverse audience of advanced students and professional scientists.While it is primarilyintendedas a reference for research,the bookcould also be a useful supplemental graduate text in courses related to information science, graph theory, machine learning, and computational biology, among others.Springer Nature c/o IBS, Benzstrasse 21, 48619 Heek 412 pp. Englisch. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780817649036

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For over a decade, complex networks have steadily grown as an important tool across a broad array of academic disciplines, with applications ranging from physics to social media. A tightly organized collection of carefully-selected papers on the subject, Towards an Information Theory of Complex Networks: Statistical Methods and Applications presents theoretical and practical results about information-theoretic and statistical models of complex networks in the natural sciences and humanities. The book's major goal is to advocate and promote a combination of graph-theoretic, information-theoretic, and statistical methods as a way to better understand and characterize real-world networks.

This volume is the first to present a self-contained, comprehensive overview of information-theoretic models of complex networks with an emphasis on applications. It begins with four chapters developing the most significant formal-theoretical issues of network modeling, but the majority of the book is devoted to combining theoretical results with an empirical analysis of real networks. Specific topics include:

• chemical graph theory
• ecosystem interaction dynamics
• social ontologies
• language networks
• software systems

This work marks a first step toward establishing advanced statistical information theory as a unified theoretical basis of complex networks for all scientific disciplines. As such, it can serve as a valuable resource for a diverse audience of advanced students and professional scientists. It is primarily intended as a reference for research, but could also be a useful supplemental graduate text in courses related to information science, graph theory, machine learning, and computational biology, among others.