Temporal networks

Author(s)

    • Holme, Petter
    • Saramäki, Jari

Bibliographic Information

Temporal networks

Petter Holme, Jari Saramäki, editors

(Understanding complex systems / founding editor, J.A. Scott Kelso)(Springer complexity)

Springer, c2013

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Description and Table of Contents

Description

The concept of temporal networks is an extension of complex networks as a modeling framework to include information on when interactions between nodes happen. Many studies of the last decade examine how the static network structure affect dynamic systems on the network. In this traditional approach the temporal aspects are pre-encoded in the dynamic system model. Temporal-network methods, on the other hand, lift the temporal information from the level of system dynamics to the mathematical representation of the contact network itself. This framework becomes particularly useful for cases where there is a lot of structure and heterogeneity both in the timings of interaction events and the network topology. The advantage compared to common static network approaches is the ability to design more accurate models in order to explain and predict large-scale dynamic phenomena (such as, e.g., epidemic outbreaks and other spreading phenomena). On the other hand, temporal network methods are mathematically and conceptually more challenging. This book is intended as a first introduction and state-of-the art overview of this rapidly emerging field.

Table of Contents

Metrics and Measures.- Time Scales.- Temporal Networks of Human Interactions.- Spreading Dynamics.- Models.

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Details

  • NCID
    BB15254885
  • ISBN
    • 9783642364600
  • LCCN
    2013938946
  • Country Code
    gw
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Heidelberg
  • Pages/Volumes
    viii, 352 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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