Six Degrees The Science of a Connected Age

Name: Six Degrees The Science of a Connected Age
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ISBN: 9780393325423

ISBN-10: 0393325423

ISBN-13: 9780393325423

Edition: 2003

Authors: Duncan J. Watts, Duncan Watts

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List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/17/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface



The Connected Age


Emergence


Networks


Synchrony


The Road Less Traveled


The Small-World Problem



The Origins of a "New" Science


The Theory of Random Graphs


Social Networks


The Dynamics Matters


Departing From Randomness


Here Come the Physicists...



Small Worlds


With a Little Help from my Friends


From Cavemen to Solarians


Small Worlds


As Simple as Possible


The Real World



Beyond the Small World


Scale-Free Networks


The Rich Get Richer


Getting Rich Can be Hard


Reintroducing Group Structure


Affiliation Networks


Directors and Scientists


Complications



Search in Networks


So What did Milgram Really Show?


Is Six a Big or a Small Number?


The Small-World Search Problem


Sociology Strikes Back


Search in Peer-to-Peer Networks



Epidemics and Failures


The Hot Zone


Viruses in the Internet


The Mathematics of Epidemics


Epidemics in a Small World


Percolation Models of Disease


Networks, Viruses, and Microsoft


Failures and Robustness



Decisions, Delusions, and the Madness of Crowds


Tulip Economics


Fear, Greed, and Rationality


Collective Decisions


Information Cascades


Information Externalities


Coercive Externalities


Market Externalities


Coordination Externalities


Social Decision Making



Thresholds, Cascades, and Predictability


Threshold Models of Decisions


Capturing Differences


Cascades in Social Networks


Cascades and Percolation


Phase Transitions and Cascades


Crossing the Chasm


A Nonlinear View of History


Power to the People


Robustness Revisited



Innovation, Adaptation, and Recovery


The Toyota-Aisin Crisis


Markets and Hierarchies


Industrial Divides


Ambiguity


The Third Way


Coping with Ambiguity


Multiscale Networks


Recovering from Disaster



The End of the Beginning


September 11


Lessons for a Connected Age


Further Reading


Bibliography


Index