Abstract

The study of networks pervades all of science, from neurobiology to statistical physics. The most basic issues are structural: how does one characterize the wiring diagram of a food web or the Internet of the metabolic network of the bacterium \emphEschericia coli? Are there any unifying principles underlying their topology? From the perspective of non-linear dynamics, we would also like to understand how an enormous network of interacting dynamical systems --- be they neurons, power stations or lasers --- will behave collectively, given their individual dynamics and coupling architecture. Researchers are only now begining to unravl the structure and dynamics of complex networks.

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March 2008

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