Small Worlds : : The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness / / Duncan J. Watts.
Everyone knows the small-world phenomenon: soon after meeting a stranger, we are surprised to discover that we have a mutual friend, or we are connected through a short chain of acquaintances. In his book, Duncan Watts uses this intriguing phenomenon--colloquially called "six degrees of separat...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Complexity ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Kevin Bacon, the Small World, and Why It All Matters
- Part I. Structure
- 2. An Overview of the Small-World Phenomenon
- 3. Big Worlds and Small Worlds: Models of Graphs
- 4. Explanations and Ruminations
- 5. "It's a Small World after All": Three Real Graphs
- Part II. Dynamics
- 6. The Spread of Infectious Disease in Structured Populations
- 7. Global Computation in Cellular Automata
- 8. Cooperation in a Small World: Games on Graphs
- 9. Global Synchrony in Populations of Coupled Phase Oscillators
- 10. Conclusions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index