Networks of Echoes Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders /

• Main Authors: West, Bruce J. (Author), Turalska, Malgorzata (Author), Grigolini, Paolo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Computational Social Sciences
• Subjects: Physics.; Application software.; Game theory.; Sociophysics.; Econophysics.; Social sciences.; Complex Networks.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.

Networks of Echoes: Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders is a mathematically rigorous and data rich book on a fascinating area of the science and engineering of social webs.  There are hundreds of complex network phenomena whose statistical properties are described by inverse power laws.  The...

Table of Contents:

• Networking Perspective
• Complexity Primer
• A Model of Decision Making
• Criticality and Crowds
• Networks of Influence
• Critical Networks.