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题名/责任者:

Complex Webs : Anticipating the Improbable / Bruce J. West, Paolo Grigolini.

出版发行项:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011, ?011.

ISBN:

9780521113663 (hardback)

ISBN:

0521113660 (hardback)

载体形态项:

x, 375 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

个人责任者:

West, Bruce J.

附加个人名称:

Grigolini, Paolo, 1940-

论题主题:

Dynamics-Statistical methods.

论题主题:

Inverse relationships (Mathematics)

论题主题:

Inverse problems (Differential equations)

论题主题:

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General)

中图法分类号:

N941.4

一般附注:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Webs; 2. Webs, trees and branches; 3. Mostly linear dynamics; 4. Random walks and chaos; 5. Non-analytic dynamics; 6. Brief recent history of webs; 7. Dynamics of chance; 8. Synopsis.

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

内容附注:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Webs; 2. Webs, trees and branches; 3. Mostly linear dynamics; 4. Random walks and chaos; 5. Non-analytic dynamics; 6. Brief recent history of webs; 7. Dynamics of chance; 8. Synopsis.

摘要附注:

"Complex Webs synthesises modern mathematical developments with a broad range of complex network applications of interest to the engineer and system scientist, presenting the common principles, algorithms, and tools governing network behaviour, dynamics, and complexity. The authors investigate multiple mathematical approaches to inverse power laws and expose the myth of normal statistics to describe natural and man-made networks. Richly illustrated throughout with real-world examples including cell phone use, accessing the Internet, failure of power grids, measures of health and disease, distribution of wealth, and many other familiar phenomena from physiology, bioengineering, biophysics, and informational and social networks, this book makes thought-provoking reading. With explanations of phenomena, diagrams, end-of-chapter problems, and worked examples, it is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in engineering and the life, social, and physical sciences. It is also a perfect introduction for researchers who are interested in this exciting new way of viewing dynamic networks"--Provided by publisher.

摘要附注:

"The Italian engineer turned social scientist Vilfredo Pareto was the first investigator to determine that the income in western society followed a law that was fundamentally unfair. He was not making a value judgement about the poor and uneducated or about the rich and pampered; rather, he was interpreting the empirical finding that in 1894 the distribution of income in western societies was not "normal," but instead the number of people with a given income decreased as a power of the level of income. On bi-logarithmic graph paper this income distribution graphs as a straight-line segment of negative slope and is called an inverse power law. He interpreted his findings as meaning that a stable society has an intrinsic imbalance resulting from its complex nature, with the wealthy having a disproportionate fraction of the available wealth. Since then staggeringly many phenomena from biology, botany, economics, medicine, physics, physiology, psychology, in short every traditional discipline, have been found to involve complex phenomena that manifest inverse power-law behavior"--Provided by publisher.

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