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Temporal Networks

  • Provides the first introduction to time-dependent complex network dynamics and topologies
  • Edited and authored by leading researches in the field
  • Covers both theory and applications
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Understanding Complex Systems (UCS)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Temporal Networks as a Modeling Framework

    • Petter Holme, Jari Saramäki
    Pages 1-14
  3. Graph Metrics for Temporal Networks

    • Vincenzo Nicosia, John Tang, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi, Giovanni Russo, Vito Latora
    Pages 15-40
  4. Burstiness: Measures, Models, and Dynamic Consequences

    • Byungjoon Min, K.-I. Goh
    Pages 41-64
  5. Temporal Scale of Dynamic Networks

    • Rajmonda Sulo Caceres, Tanya Berger-Wolf
    Pages 65-94
  6. Models, Entropy and Information of Temporal Social Networks

    • Kun Zhao, Márton Karsai, Ginestra Bianconi
    Pages 95-117
  7. Temporal Motifs

    • Lauri Kovanen, Márton Karsai, Kimmo Kaski, János Kertész, Jari Saramäki
    Pages 119-133
  8. Applications of Temporal Graph Metrics to Real-World Networks

    • John Tang, Ilias Leontiadis, Salvatore Scellato, Vincenzo Nicosia, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi et al.
    Pages 135-159
  9. Temporal Networks of Face-to-Face Human Interactions

    • Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto
    Pages 191-216
  10. Social Insects: A Model System for Network Dynamics

    • Daniel Charbonneau, Benjamin Blonder, Anna Dornhaus
    Pages 217-244
  11. Self-Exciting Point Process Modeling of Conversation Event Sequences

    • Naoki Masuda, Taro Takaguchi, Nobuo Sato, Kazuo Yano
    Pages 245-264
  12. Infering and Calibrating Triadic Closure in a Dynamic Network

    • Alexander V. Mantzaris, Desmond J. Higham
    Pages 265-282
  13. Dynamic Communicability Predicts Infectiousness

    • Alexander V. Mantzaris, Desmond J. Higham
    Pages 283-294
  14. Random Walks on Stochastic Temporal Networks

    • Till Hoffmann, Mason A. Porter, Renaud Lambiotte
    Pages 295-313
  15. A Temporal Network Version of Watts’s Cascade Model

    • Fariba Karimi, Petter Holme
    Pages 315-329
  16. Timing Interactions in Social Simulations: The Voter Model

    • Juan Fernández-Gracia, Víctor M. Eguíluz, Maxi San Miguel
    Pages 331-352

About this book

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 networkmethods 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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Ice Lab, Department of Physics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

    Petter Holme

  • and Computational Sciences (BECS), Department of Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Aalto, Finland

    Jari Saramäki

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eBook USD 79.99
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Softcover Book USD 99.99
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Hardcover Book USD 129.99
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