Complex Networks

Preface

Recent technological advances in the last two decades have provided availability of

enormous amounts of data about large networks consisting of hundreds and thou-

sands of nodes. These so-called complex networks have non-trivial topological fea-

tures and can vary from technological networks to social networks to biological net-

works. The study of complex networks, sometimes referred to as network science,

has become a fundamental research area since then in various disciplines such as

mathematics, statistics, computer science, physics and biology.

These seemingly unrelated networks experimentally have been shown to have

common properties