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Generating Random Networks and Graphs

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom
Published: 16th Mar 2017
Dimensions: w 179mm h 253mm d 24mm
Weight: 790g
ISBN-10: 0198709897
ISBN-13: 9780198709893
Barcode No: 9780198709893
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Synopsis
Generating random networks efficiently and accurately is an important challenge for practical applications, and an interesting question for theoretical study. This book presents and discusses common methods of generating random graphs. It begins with approaches such as Exponential Random Graph Models, where the targeted probability of each network appearing in the ensemble is specified. This section also includes degree-preserving randomisation algorithms, where the aim is to generate networks with the correct number of links at each node, and care must be taken to avoid introducing a bias. Separately, it looks at growth style algorithms (e.g. preferential attachment) which aim to model a real process and then to analyse the resulting ensemble of graphs. It also covers how to generate special types of graphs including modular graphs, graphs with community structure and temporal graphs. The book is aimed at the graduate student or advanced undergraduate. It includes many worked examples and open questions making it suitable for use in teaching. Explicit pseudocode algorithms are included throughout the book to make the ideas straightforward to apply. With larger and larger datasets, it is crucial to have practical and well-understood tools. Being able to test a hypothesis against a properly specified control case is at the heart of the 'scientific method'. Hence, knowledge on how to generate controlled and unbiased random graph ensembles is vital for anybody wishing to apply network science in their research.

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It succeeds to reach a high degree of learning osmosis for the reader; moreover, relative transmission of research experience, to name a few advantages of the volume at hand. The authors succeed in doing many things well, e.g. inventing a lot of suitable paradigms. * Nikolaos E. Myridis, Contemporary Physics * This is a magnificent guide through a subject that is deeper, more subtle and much more important for data-based applications than one might suspect, and it fully reflects the authors' technical prowess and teaching abilities. Advanced readers will find much food for thought in these pages. * Andrea De Martino, National Research Council of Italy & Human Genetics Foundation *