TheNatureofComplexNetworksprovidesasystematicintroductiontothestatisticalmechanicsofcomplexnetworksandthedifferenttheoreticalachievementsinthefieldthatarenowfindingstrandsincommon.Thebookpresentsawiderangeofnetworksandtheprocessestakingplaceonthem,includingrecentlydevelopeddirections,methods,andtechniques.Itassumesastatisticalmechanicsviewofrandomnetworksbasedontheconceptofstatisticalensemblesbutalsofeaturestheapproachesandmethodsofmodernrandomgraphtheoryandtheiroverlapswithstatisticalphysics.Thisbookwillappealtograduatestudentsandresearchersinthefieldsofstatisticalphysics,complexsystems,graphtheory,appliedmathematics,andtheoreticalepidemiology.
