Peter Csermely: Weak Links

(The Universal Key to the Stability of Networks and Complex Systems)

English version: Springer Verlag (Heidelberg, Germany) Hard cover: 2006 - Soft cover: 2009 To order the book click to the cover on the right side! synopsis in English ()

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0. Preface ()

1. A Principle is Born: The Granovetter Study ()

2. Why Do We Like Networks? ()

2.1 Small-Worldness
2.2 Scale-Freeness
    2.2.1 Scale-Free Degree Distribution of Networks
    2.2.2 Underlying Reason for Scale-Freeness: Self-Organisation
    2.2.3 Scale-Free Distribution in Time: Probabilities
    2.2.4 Scale-Free Survival Strategies: Levy Flights
    2.2.5 Scale-Free Pleasures
2.3 Nestedness
    2.3.1 Network modules
    2.3.2 Intermodular Weak Links: The Role of Creative Elements
2.4 Weak-Linkness

3. Network Stability ()

3.1 Perturbations. Good and Bad Noise
3.2 Life as a Relaxation Phenomenon: Dissipate Locally, Connect Globally
    3.2.1 Confined Relaxation with Global Connection
    3.2.2 Self-Organised Criticality
3.3 Network Failures
3.4 Topological Phase Transitions of Networks
3.5 Nestedness and Stability: Sync
3.6 How Can We Stabilize Networks? Engineers or Tinkerers

4. Weak Links as Stabilizers of Complex Systems ()

4.1 An Emerging Synthesis: Weak Links Stabilize Complex Systems
4.2 Weak Links: A Starting Definition
4.3 Stability: A Starting Definition
4.4 Complex Systems
4.5 Weak Links and System Degeneracy

5. Atoms, Molecules and Macromolecules ()

5.1 Protein Folding Problems
5.2 Energy Landscapes
5.3 Weak Bonds in Protein and RNA Folding

6. Weak Links and Cellular Stability ()

6.1 Cellular Networks
6.2 Stability of the Cellular Net
6.3 Stress, Diversity and Jumps in Evolution
6.4 Cancer, Disease and Aging
    6.4.1 Cancer
    6.4.2 Disease
    6.4.3 Aging

7. Weak Links and the Stability of Organisms ()

7.1 Immunological Networks
7.2 Transport Systems
7.3 Muscle Net
7.4 The Neuro-Glial Network
7.5 Psycho Net

8. Social Nets ()

8.1 Animal Communities
8.2 A Novel Explanation of the Menopause
8.3 Stability of Human Societies
8.4 Firms and Human Organisations
8.5 Dark Networks and Terror Nets
8.6 Pseudo-Grooming

9. Networks of Human Culture ()

9.1 The Language Net
9.2 Novels, Plays, and Films as Networks
9.3 Our Engineered Space
9.4 Software Nets
9.5 Engineers and Tinkerers: An Emerging Synthesis

10. The Global Web ()

10.1 The World Trade Web
10.2 Turning Points in History
10.3 Weak Links: A Part of Social Capital

11. The Ecoweb ()

11.1 Weak Links and the Stability of Ecosystems
11.2 Omnivory
11.3 The Weak Links of Gaia

12. Conclusions and Perspectives ()

12.1 The Unity of the Weakly-Linked World: A Summary
12.2 Revisiting the Definitions: A Synthesis
12.3 Prospects and Extensions
12.4 Weak Links and Our Lives

Appendix ()

A Useful Links
B Glossary
References

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