[Air-l] another physicist discovers social networks andthe internet

[Barry Wellman]

fyi,
 Barry
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  Barry Wellman         Professor of Sociology        NetLab Director
  wellman at chass.utoronto.ca  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman

  Centre for Urban & Community Studies          University of Toronto
  455 Spadina Avenue    Toronto Canada M5S 2G8    fax:+1-416-978-7162
	     To network is to live; to live is to network
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  1. New Book from Cambridge University Press

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Date:    Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:28:44 +0000
From:    Andy Flower <aflower at CAMBRIDGE.ORG>
Subject: New Book from Cambridge University Press

List members may be interested in the following new title from
Cambridge University Press.  If you would like more information
please follow the link at the foot of this email.

Best wishes,

Andy Flower
Marketing Controller, Physical Sciences
Cambridge University Press

Evolution and Structure of the Internet: A Statistical Physics Approach

 Romualdo Pastor-Satorras
 Universitat Polit=E8cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona

 and Alessandro Vespignani
 Universit=E9 de Paris XI

 This book describes the application of statistical physics and
complex  systems theory to the study of the evolution and structure of
the internet.

 Contents:
 List of abbreviations; Preface; 1. A brief history of the Internet; 2. How
the Internet works; 3. Measuring the global Internet; 4. The Internet
large scale topology; 5. Modeling the Internet; 6. The Internet
robustness; 7. Virtual and social networks in the Internet; 8. Searching
and walking on the Internet; 9. Epidemics in the Internet; 10. Beyond
the Internet=92s skeleton: traffic and global performance; 11. Outlook;
Appendix 1. Graph theory applied to topology analysis; Appendix 2.
Interface resolution and router topology; Appendix 3. Numerical
analysis of heavy-tailed distributions; Appendix 4. Degree correlations;
Appendix 5. Scale-free networks: scaling relations; Appendix 6. The
SIR model of virus propagation; Bibliography; Index.

 For more information please visit
 http://books.cambridge.org/catalogue.asp?isbn=3D0521826985

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