Scale-Free Networks

• A complete and up to date description of the field of scale-free networks.
• Self-contained.
• Mathematical passages fully explained.
• Written in simple and informative language.

Readership: Students and researchers in Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics, Finance, Ecology and Biology.

Guido Caldarelli, Department of Physics, University of Rome 'Sapienza'

"The context and exposition make this a useful textbook for beginners, as well as a reference book for experts in a variety of disciplines" - CERN Courier

1: Introduction to Graphs
2: Graph structure: Communities
3: Scale-invariance
4: The Origin of power law functions
5: Graph Generating Models
6: Networks in the cell
7: Ecological networks
8: Geophysical networks
9: Technological networks: Internet and WWW
10: Collaborative Relational and Cognitive Networks
11: Financial networks