Disrupted Networks From Physics to Climate Change

Name: Disrupted Networks From Physics to Climate Change
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ISBN: 9789814304306

ISBN-10: 9814304301

ISBN-13: 9789814304306

Edition: 2010

Authors: Bruce J. West

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This book provides a lens through which modern society is shown to depend on complex networks for its stability. One way to achieve this understanding is through the development of a new kind of science, one that is not explicitly dependent on the traditional disciplines of biology, economics, physics, sociology and so on; a science of networks. This text reviews, in non-mathematical language, what we know about the development of science in the twenty-first century and how that knowledge influences our world. In addition, it distinguishes the two-tiered science of the twentieth century, based on experiment and theory (data and knowledge) from the three-tiered science of experiment,…

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List price: $77.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Publication date: 3/1/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 316
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Preface



Why a Science of Networks?



The science of data, information and knowledge



The face of science



Qualitative and quantitative



What is a complex network?



A taxonomy of complex networks



The three-tiers of science



Framing the climate change debate



The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change



Climate topologies in comparison



Data



Physics as a scientific paradigm



Psychophysics quantifies individuals



Sociophysics quantifies groups



Econophysics quantifies exchange



Biophysics quantifies life



Time series



Measures and data



Representing the data



Fractal statistics



Solar and climate variability



Solar data



Temperature data



Information



Entropy



Wiener-Shannon Information



The Physicality of Information



Pareto's Law



Economic networks



Science networks



Information networks



Social-communication networks



Networks of neurons



Entropy and data processing



Diffusion of Information



Diffusion entropy analysis



Sun-climate complexity matching?



Knowledge



Mathematics enables knowledge



The Pareto Principle: the 80/20 rule



What we know about complex networks



Random networks



Scale-free networks and the STDs epidemic



Scale-rich networks



The Sun-climate linking: an ongoing debate



The Hockey Stick graph and the climate models



The 11-year solar cycle signature on climate: models vs. data



The phenomenological reconstruction of the solar signature on climate



A World of Disrupted Networks


Glossary


Bibliography


Index