Structure and Dynamics of Networks - Sheding light on the interplay of network topology and dynamics

Networks have become a general concept to model the structure of arbitrary relationships among entities. The framework of a network introduces a fundamentally new approach apart from `classical' structures found in physics to model the topology of a system. In the context of networks fundamentally new topological effects can emerge and lead to a class of topologies which are termed `complex networks'. The concept of a network successfully models the static topology of an empirical system, an arbitrary model, and a physical system. Generally networks serve as a host for some dynamics running on it in order to fulfill a function. The question of the reciprocal relationship among a dynamical process on a network and its topology is the context of this Thesis.

About the author

Born on February 18, 1980 in Berlin, Germany. After graduatingfrom the Technische Universität Darmstadt in 2005 with a diplomain Physics, he wrote his dissertation under the supervision ofProf. M. Porto. He received his doctoral degree in December 2008and continued as a postdoctoral fellow of Prof. J. Klafter at theUniversity of Freiburg.

Product details

• Authors: Sebastian Weber
• Publisher: Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften
• Languages: German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.2009
• EAN: 9783838107196
• ISBN: 978-3-8381-0719-6
• No. of pages: 116
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 220 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 171 g
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Miscellaneous