Complex Networks and Control Lab

Complex Networks Courses:

*        Networked Life (CSE112, Spring 2004) MIT

*        The Structure of Information Networks (CS 685) Kleinberg

*        Network Theory (Complex Systems 535, Winter 2004), Newman

*        Scaling, Power Laws, and Small World Phenomena in Networks, Towsley (U. Mass.)

*        Networks and Complexity, White (UC Irvine)

*        Networks and Complexity in Social Systems, Watts (Columbia)

*        Complex Networks (Winter 2004)  (University of Essex, Winter 2004 )

*        Power Laws: Hype or Revelation?(MAS 965) MIT

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Links to Complex Networks:

*        Amblard Frederic's Network Newsletter (a collection of network related events)

*        Econophysics

*        Center for Chaos Control & Synchronization, CityU of HK

*        Self-Organized Network, Notre Dame

*        Complex Networks, Boston Univ.

*        Natural Networks, MIT

*        Small-world phenomena, Cornell

*        Small World & Evolving Networks, Univ. Porto

*        The Erdos Number Project, Oakland

*        Web Metrology and Information Retrieval, NEC

*        Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)

*        CLEVER Project, IBM

*        An Atlas of Cyberspaces

*        Sergi's Evolution & dynamics in information networks

*        Newman's homepage

*        R. V. Sole's homepage

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Online Tools for Network Analysis and Visualization: 

*        International Network for Social Network Analysis
- Academic and professional network regarding network analysis

*        Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS)
- The repository of network analysis tools

*        SourceForge
- Repository for network analysis executables and complete libraries

*        The Combinatorium
- Repository of network algorithms

*        Pajek
- A popular program for network visualization

*        JUNG
-  Java Universal Network/Graph Framework

*        Shift-square Lanczos Method
- computing eigenvalues of large graphs

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Control of Internet: 

Fernando Paganini?http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~paganini/

John Doyle?http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~doyle/

Sally Floyd?http://www.icir.org/floyd/

Vinnicombe?http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~gv/

IBM Performance Management?http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/PM/

Tarek F. Abdelzaher?http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~zaher/

Baochun Li, University of Toronto?http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~bli/

Chenyang Lu?http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~lu/

Daniel A. Menasc?/span>牋 http://cs.gmu.edu/faculty/menasce.html

A. Jefferson Offutt牋 http://www.isse.gmu.edu/faculty/ofut/index.html

Software Rejuvenation牋 http://shannon.ee.duke.edu/Rejuv/

AT&T Labs?http://www.research.att.com/resources/

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Other Links: 

Computer Science Student Resource Site?http://williamstallings.com/StudentSupport.html

Citeseer?http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs

微软亚洲研究院(Microsoft Research Academy of Asia)?http://research.microsoft.com/asia/

Dennis S. Bernstein?http://www.engin.umich.edu/dept/aero/people/faculty/bernstein/

Control System Design?http://vasak.ame.arizona.edu/ame455/

Linear Dynamical Systems?http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee363/

LINEAR SYSTEMS THEORY?http://www-scf.usc.edu/~hespanha/EE585/

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Complex Networks Reviews:

[1]     S. H. Strogatz (2001), Exploring complex networks. Nature, 410: 268-276.

[2]     R. Albert & A.-L. Barabasi (2002), Statistical mechanics of complex networks. Rev. Mod. Phys., 74: 47-97.

[3]     S. N. Dorogovtsev & J. F. F. Mendes (2002), Evolution of networks. Advances in Physics, 51: 1079-1187.

[4]     X. F. Wang (2002), Complex networks: topology, dynamics and synchronization. International Journal of Bifurcation & Chaos, 12(5): 885-916.

[5]     X. F. Wang & G. Chen (2003). Complex networks: Small-world, scale-free and beyond. IEEE Circuits & Systems Magazine, 3(1), 6-20.

[6]     M. E. J. Newman (2003), The structure and function of complex networks. SIAM Review 45: 167-256.

[7]     A.-L. Barabasi & E. Bonabeau (2003), Scale-free networks. Scientific American, May, 50-59.

[8]     A.-L. Barabasi & Z. N. Altvai (2004), Network biology. Nature Reviews Genetics, 5: 101-114.

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Books on Complex Networks:

General Audience:

Ø      Albert-László Barabási, Linked: The New Science of Networks (Massachusetts: Persus Publishing, 2002) 

Ø       Mark Buchanan, Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks (New York: Norton, 2002)

Ø      Bernardo A. Huberman, The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information (Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2001)

Ø      Duncan J. Watts, Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (New York: Norton, 2003)

Monographs:

Ø      Stefan Bornholdt and Heinz Georg Schuster, ed., Handbook of Graphs and Networks: From the Genome to the Internet (Germany: Wiley-VCH 2003)

Ø      S. N. Dorogovtsev and J. F. F. Mendes, Evolution of Networks: From Biological Nets to the Internet and WWW (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003)

Ø      Duncan J. Watts, Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1991)

Graph Theory/Algorithms:

Ø      R. J. Wilson, Introduction to Graph Theory. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 4th edition (1997)

Ø      Béla Bollobás, 2nd Ed. Random Graphs (England: Cambridge University Press, 2001)

Ø      Joel Spencer, The Strange Logic of Random Graphs: Algorithms and Combinatorics, (USA: Springer 2001)

Ø      R. K. Ahuja, T. L. Magnanti, and J. B. Orlin, Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ (1993)

Internet/WWW:

Ø      Pierre Baldi, Paolo Frasconi and Padhraic Smyth, Modeling the Internet and the Web: Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms (England: John Wiley & Sons, 2003)

Ø      Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin, Mapping Cyberspace (New York: Routledge, 2001)

Ø      Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin, Atlas of Cyberspace (Great Britian: Addison-Wesley, 2001)

Social Networks:

Ø      J. Scott, Social Network Analysis: A Handbook. Sage, London, 2nd edition (2000)

Ø      S. Wasserman and K. Faust, Social Network Analysis. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1994)

Ø      Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, (USA: LIttle, Brown and Company, 2000)

Ø      Manfred Kochen, The Small World (New Jersey: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1989)

Ø      R. R. McNeill and William H. Mc Neill, The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003)

Economical Networks:

Ø      Manuel Castells, The Internet Galaxy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001)

Ø      Ross Dawson, Living Networks: Leasing your Company, Customers, and Partners in the Hyper-Connected Economy (New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2003)

Ø      Dirk Messner, The Network Society: Economic Development and International Competitiveness as Problems of Social Governance (Portland/England: Frank Cass Publishers, 1997)

Ø      Chris Westland, Finanical Dynamics: A System for Valuing Technology Companies (Asia: John Wiley & Sons, 2003)

Other books discussing various aspects of networks:

Ø    Fritjof Capra, The Web of Life: A New Understanding of Living Systems (New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1996)

Ø    Geoff Mulgan, Connexity: How to live in a Connected World, (Havard Business School Press, Massachusetts, 1998)

Ø    Steven Strogatz, Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (New York: Hyperion, 2003)

Ø    Mark C. Taylor, The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture (University of Chicago Press (Trd); 2002)

Ø    American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings, Vol. 661 Pedro L. Garrido and Joaquín Marro, ed., Modeling Complex Systems Seventh Granada Lectures, Spain 2002 (Melville: New York, 2003)

Scale-free networks in the arts:

Ø    The Year's Best Science Fiction: 2001: Nineteenth Annual Collection Gardner Dozois, Editor (Glacial by Alastair Reynolds)
-- Glacial is a short story featuring scale-free networks on a distant planet (St. Martin Griffin, July 2002)

Ø    Mark Lombardi, Robert Hobbs, Judith Richards, Mark Lombardi: Global Networks (Independent Curators, August 2003)