Multilayer Networks Structure and Function

by Bianconi, Ginestra

• ISBN13: 9780198753919
• ISBN10: 0198753918
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-08-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Ginestra Bianconi, Reader in Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Ginestra Bianconi is Reader (Associate Professor) in Applied Mathematics and Director of the MSc in Network Science at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London. Physicist by training, since 2001 she has made network theory and its applications her central subject of investigation publishing more than one hundred papers on the subject. Currently her research focuses on multilayer networks, network geometry and percolation theory.

Table of Contents

Part I: Sinlge and multilayer networks
1. Complex systems as multilayer networks
Part II: Single networks
2. The Structure of sinlge networks
3. The dynamics on single layers
Part III: Multilayer networks
4. Multilayer networks in nature, society and infrastuctures
5. The mathematical definition
6. Basic structural properties
7. Structural correlations of multiplex networks
8. Communities
9. Centrality measures
10. Multilayer network models
11. Interdependent multilayer networks
12. Classical percolation, generalized percolation and cascades
13. Epidemic spreading
14. Diffusion
15. Synchronization, non-linear dyanmics and control
16. Opinion dynamics and game theory
Appendix A. The Barabasi Albert model: the master equation
Appendix B. Entropy and null models of single networks
Appendix C. Growing multiplex networks: the master equation
Appendix D. Percolation of interdependent networks
Appendix E. Directed pervolation of interdependent networks
Appendix F. Immunization strategies on multiplex networks
Appendix G. Spectrum of the Supra-Laplacian