Guido Caldarelli, IMT Fixed-Term Professor, Professor of Theoretical Physics, is Director of the IMT Research Unit NATWORKS and member of the Institute for Complex System of the National Research Council, Italy.
Michele Catanzaro is a freelance science writer based in Barcelona, Spain.
Their book ?Networks: A Very Short Introduction? will be published by the Oxford University Press in October 2012.
The book may be found at the OUP website.
Here is a short description.
In this Very Short Introduction, Guido Caldarelli and Michele Catanzaro discuss the nature and variety of networks, using everyday examples from society, technology, nature, and history to illuminate the science of network theory. The authors describe the ubiquitous role of networks, reveal how networks self-organize, explain why the rich get richer, and discuss how networks can spontaneously collapse. They conclude by highlighting how the findings of complex network theory have very wide and important applications in genetics, ecology, communications, economics, and sociology.
