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Book Temporal Networks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Petter Holme
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2013-05-23
  • ISBN : 3642364616
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Temporal Networks written by Petter Holme and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 network methods 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.

Book Spatio temporal Networks

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  • Author : Betsy George
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-09-05
  • ISBN : 1461449189
  • Pages : 83 pages

Download or read book Spatio temporal Networks written by Betsy George and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatio-temporal networks (STN)are spatial networks whose topology and/or attributes change with time. These are encountered in many critical areas of everyday life such as transportation networks, electric power distribution grids, and social networks of mobile users. STN modeling and computations raise significant challenges. The model must meet the conflicting requirements of simplicity and adequate support for efficient algorithms. Another challenge is to address the change in the semantics of common graph operations, such as, shortest path computation assuming different semantics, or when temporal dimension is added. Also paradigms (e.g. dynamic programming) used in algorithm design may be ineffective since their assumptions (e.g. stationary ranking of candidates) may be violated by the dynamic nature of STNs. In recent years, STNs have attracted attention in research. New representations have been proposed along with algorithms to perform key STN operations, while accounting for their time dependence. Designing a STN database would require the development of data models, query languages, and indexing methods to efficiently represent, query, store, and manage time-variant properties of the network. The purpose of Spatio-temporal Networks: Modeling and Algorithms is to explore this design at the conceptual, logical, and physical level. Models used to represent STNs are explored and analyzed. STN operations, with an emphasis on their altered semantics with the addition of temporal dimension, are also addressed.

Book Time dependent Networks

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  • Author : Vinay Muralidhara Yadappanavar
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Time dependent Networks written by Vinay Muralidhara Yadappanavar and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Adaptive Networks

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  • Author : Thilo Gross
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2012-03-14
  • ISBN : 9783642260148
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Adaptive Networks written by Thilo Gross and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adding one and one makes two, usually. But sometimes things add up to more than the sum of their parts. This observation, now frequently expressed in the maxim “more is different”, is one of the characteristic features of complex systems and, in particular, complex networks. Along with their ubiquity in real world systems, the ability of networks to exhibit emergent dynamics, once they reach a certain size, has rendered them highly attractive targets for research. The resulting network hype has made the word “network” one of the most in uential buzzwords seen in almost every corner of science, from physics and biology to economy and social sciences. The theme of “more is different” appears in a different way in the present v- ume, from the viewpoint of what we call “adaptive networks.” Adaptive networks uniquely combine dynamics on a network with dynamical adaptive changes of the underlying network topology, and thus they link classes of mechanisms that were previously studied in isolation. Here adding one and one certainly does not make two, but gives rise to a number of new phenomena, including highly robust se- organization of topology and dynamics and other remarkably rich dynamical beh- iors.

Book Experimental Algorithms

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  • Author : Catherine C. McGeoch
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2008-05-08
  • ISBN : 3540685480
  • Pages : 371 pages

Download or read book Experimental Algorithms written by Catherine C. McGeoch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-05-08 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Experimental and Efficient Algorithms, WEA 2008, held in Provincetown, MA, USA, in May/June 2008. The 26 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and present current research on experimental evaluation and engineering of algorithms, as well as in various aspects of computational optimization and its applications. Special focus is put on the use of experimental methods to guide the design, analysis, implementation, and evaluation of algorithms, heuristics, and optimization programs.

Book Time Varying Network Optimization

Download or read book Time Varying Network Optimization written by Dan Sha and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text describes a series of models, propositions, and algorithms developed in recent years on time-varying networks. References and discussions on relevant problems and studies that have appeared in the literature are integrated in the book. Its eight chapters consider problems including the shortest path problem, the minimum-spanning tree problem, the maximum flow problem, and many more. The time-varying traveling salesman problem and the Chinese postman problem are presented in a chapter together with the time-varying generalized problem. While these topics are examined within the framework of time-varying networks, each chapter is self-contained so that each can be read – and used – separately.

Book Journal on Data Semantics XI

Download or read book Journal on Data Semantics XI written by Philippe Thiran and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The LNCS Journal on Data Semantics is devoted to the presentation of notable work that, in one way or another, addresses research and development on issues related to data semantics. The scope of the journal ranges from theories supporting the formal definition of semantic content to innovative domain-specific applications of semantic knowledge. The journal addresses researchers and advanced practitioners working on the semantic web, interoperability, mobile information services, data warehousing, knowledge representation and reasoning, conceptual database modeling, ontologies, and artificial intelligence. Volume XI contains extended versions of eight revised and selected papers from several international workshops in the field, which took place in 2006.

Book Algorithmics of Large and Complex Networks

Download or read book Algorithmics of Large and Complex Networks written by Jürgen Lerner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-07-02 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A state-of-the-art survey that reports on the progress made in selected areas of this important and growing field, aiding the analysis of existing networks and the design of new and more efficient algorithms for solving various problems on these networks.

Book Guide To Temporal Networks  A  Second Edition

Download or read book Guide To Temporal Networks A Second Edition written by Naoki Masuda and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Network science offers a powerful language to represent and study complex systems composed of interacting elements — from the Internet to social and biological systems. A Guide to Temporal Networks presents recent theoretical and modelling progress in the emerging field of temporally varying networks and provides connections between the different areas of knowledge required to address this multi-disciplinary subject. After an introduction to key concepts on networks and stochastic dynamics, the authors guide the reader through a coherent selection of mathematical and computational tools for network dynamics. Perfect for students and professionals, this book is a gateway to an active field of research developing between the disciplines of applied mathematics, physics and computer science, with applications in others including social sciences, neuroscience and biology.This second edition extensively expands upon the coverage of the first edition as the authors expertly present recent theoretical and modelling progress in the emerging field of temporal networks, providing the keys to (and connections between) the different areas of knowledge required to address this multi-disciplinary problem.

Book Time Dependent Problems and Difference Methods

Download or read book Time Dependent Problems and Difference Methods written by Bertil Gustafsson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the First Edition ". . . fills a considerable gap in the numerical analysis literature by providing a self-contained treatment . . . this is an important work written in a clear style . . . warmly recommended to any graduate student or researcher in the field of the numerical solution of partial differential equations." —SIAM Review Time-Dependent Problems and Difference Methods, Second Edition continues to provide guidance for the analysis of difference methods for computing approximate solutions to partial differential equations for time-dependent problems. The book treats differential equations and difference methods with a parallel development, thus achieving a more useful analysis of numerical methods. The Second Edition presents hyperbolic equations in great detail as well as new coverage on second-order systems of wave equations including acoustic waves, elastic waves, and Einstein equations. Compared to first-order hyperbolic systems, initial-boundary value problems for such systems contain new properties that must be taken into account when analyzing stability. Featuring the latest material in partial differential equations with new theorems, examples, and illustrations,Time-Dependent Problems and Difference Methods, Second Edition also includes: High order methods on staggered grids Extended treatment of Summation By Parts operators and their application to second-order derivatives Simplified presentation of certain parts and proofs Time-Dependent Problems and Difference Methods, Second Edition is an ideal reference for physical scientists, engineers, numerical analysts, and mathematical modelers who use numerical experiments to test designs and to predict and investigate physical phenomena. The book is also excellent for graduate-level courses in applied mathematics and scientific computations.

Book Publication No  715  A Shortest Path Algorithm for Networks with Time Dependent Link Travel Times

Download or read book Publication No 715 A Shortest Path Algorithm for Networks with Time Dependent Link Travel Times written by Université de Montréal. Centre de recherche sur les transports and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Combinatorial Optimization

Download or read book Combinatorial Optimization written by Mourad Baïou and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-22 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization, ISCO 2020, which was due to be held in Montreal, Canada, in May 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 24 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions.They were organized in the following topical sections: polyhedral combinatorics; integer programming; scheduling; matching; Network Design; Heuristics.

Book Resource Allocation and Cross layer Control in Wireless Networks

Download or read book Resource Allocation and Cross layer Control in Wireless Networks written by Leonidas Georgiadis and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information flow in a telecommunication network is accomplished through the interaction of mechanisms at various design layers with the end goal of supporting the information exchange needs of the applications. In wireless networks in particular, the different layers interact in a nontrivial manner in order to support information transfer. In this text we will present abstract models that capture the cross-layer interaction from the physical to transport layer in wireless network architectures including cellular, ad-hoc and sensor networks as well as hybrid wireless-wireline. The model allows for arbitrary network topologies as well as traffic forwarding modes, including datagrams and virtual circuits. Furthermore the time varying nature of a wireless network, due either to fading channels or to changing connectivity due to mobility, is adequately captured in our model to allow for state dependent network control policies. Quantitative performance measures that capture the quality of service requirements in these systems depending on the supported applications are discussed, including throughput maximization, energy consumption minimization, rate utility function maximization as well as general performance functionals. Cross-layer control algorithms with optimal or suboptimal performance with respect to the above measures are presented and analyzed. A detailed exposition of the related analysis and design techniques is provided.

Book Equilibrium and Advanced Transportation Modelling

Download or read book Equilibrium and Advanced Transportation Modelling written by P. Marcotte and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each chapter in Equilibrium and Advanced Transportation Modelling develops a topic from basic concepts to the state-of-the-art, and beyond. All chapters relate to aspects of network equilibrium. Chapter One advocates the use of simulation models for the representation of traffic flow movements at the microscopic level. Chapter Two presents travel demand systems for generating trip matrices from activity-based models, taking into account the entire daily schedule of network users. Chapter Three examines equilibrium strategic choices adopted by the passengers of a congested transit system, carefully addressing line selection at boarding and transfer nodes. Chapter Four provides a critical appraisal of the traditional process that consists in sequentially performing the tasks of trip generation, trip distribution, mode split and assignment, and its impact on the practice of transportation planning. Chapter Five gives an insightful overview of stochastic assignment models, both in the static and dynamic cases. Chapters Six and Seven investigate the setting of tolls to improve traffic flow conditions in a congested transportation network. Chapter Eight provides a unifying framework for the analysis of multicriteria assignment models. In this chapter, available algorithms are summarized and an econometric perspective on the estimation of heterogeneous preferences is given. Chapter Nine surveys the use of hyperpaths in operations research and proposes a new paradigm of equilibrium in a capacitated network, with an application to transit assignment. Chapter Ten analyzes the transient states of a system moving towards equilibrium, using the mathematical framework of projected dynamical systems. Chapter Eleven discusses an in-depth survey of algorithms for solving shortest path problems, which are pervasive to any equilibrium algorithm. The chapter devotes special attention to the computation of dynamic shortest paths and to shortest hyperpaths. The final chapter considers operations research tools for reducing traffic congestion, in particular introducing an algorithm for solving a signal-setting problem formulated as a bilevel program.

Book Quantum Chemistry and Dynamics of Excited States

Download or read book Quantum Chemistry and Dynamics of Excited States written by Leticia González and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the rapidly evolving methodology of electronic excited states For academic researchers, postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students, Quantum Chemistry and Dynamics of Excited States: Methods and Applications reports the most updated and accurate theoretical techniques to treat electronic excited states. From methods to deal with stationary calculations through time-dependent simulations of molecular systems, this book serves as a guide for beginners in the field and knowledge seekers alike. Taking into account the most recent theory developments and representative applications, it also covers the often-overlooked gap between theoretical and computational chemistry. An excellent reference for both researchers and students, Excited States provides essential knowledge on quantum chemistry, an in-depth overview of the latest developments, and theoretical techniques around the properties and nonadiabatic dynamics of chemical systems. Readers will learn: ● Essential theoretical techniques to describe the properties and dynamics of chemical systems ● Electronic Structure methods for stationary calculations ● Methods for electronic excited states from both a quantum chemical and time-dependent point of view ● A breakdown of the most recent developments in the past 30 years For those searching for a better understanding of excited states as they relate to chemistry, biochemistry, industrial chemistry, and beyond, Quantum Chemistry and Dynamics of Excited States provides a solid education in the necessary foundations and important theories of excited states in photochemistry and ultrafast phenomena.

Book Space Time Dependent Phenomena in Networks

Download or read book Space Time Dependent Phenomena in Networks written by Kamalika Hajra (Basu) and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complex web like structures or networks describe a wide variety of systems ranging from the Internet to the world wide web (WWW), and from social bondings to gene transcriptions. It has been found that these networks that are apparently so diverse in nature, actually possess some important common features like small world property, scale free nature etc. In this book, we have considered growing networks, where the attachment probability of a new node joining the network depends on the degree of the existing nodes along with the "age" and/or "distance" between nodes. Both numerically simulated aging networks as well as real world networks have been considered. In case of aging networks, we have considered a model which is parametrically defined and obtained a rich phase diagram in the parameter space. We have also successfully modelled the citation network, the collaboration network and the earthquake network in which the aging factor is present and from these models several features of the real networks could be reproduced. Finally we have studied how a static phase transition effects the dynamical phenomena of searching or navigation on a network following different strategies.

Book Algorithm Engineering

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthias Müller-Hannemann
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2010-08-05
  • ISBN : 3642148654
  • Pages : 527 pages

Download or read book Algorithm Engineering written by Matthias Müller-Hannemann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Algorithms are essential building blocks of computer applications. However, advancements in computer hardware, which render traditional computer models more and more unrealistic, and an ever increasing demand for efficient solution to actual real world problems have led to a rising gap between classical algorithm theory and algorithmics in practice. The emerging discipline of Algorithm Engineering aims at bridging this gap. Driven by concrete applications, Algorithm Engineering complements theory by the benefits of experimentation and puts equal emphasis on all aspects arising during a cyclic solution process ranging from realistic modeling, design, analysis, robust and efficient implementations to careful experiments. This tutorial - outcome of a GI-Dagstuhl Seminar held in Dagstuhl Castle in September 2006 - covers the essential aspects of this process in ten chapters on basic ideas, modeling and design issues, analysis of algorithms, realistic computer models, implementation aspects and algorithmic software libraries, selected case studies, as well as challenges in Algorithm Engineering. Both researchers and practitioners in the field will find it useful as a state-of-the-art survey.