| Complex Networks: Results of the 1st International Workshop on Complex Networks (Complenet 2009) 2009 Edition Contributor(s): Menezes, Ronaldo (Editor), Fortunato, Santo (Editor), Mangioni, Giuseppe (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3642012051 ISBN-13: 9783642012051 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Applied - Computers | Intelligence (ai) & Semantics - Mathematics | Differential Equations - General |
| Dewey: 006.31 |
| Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.14 lbs) 225 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Though the reductionist approachto biology and medicine has led to several imp- tant advances, further progresses with respect to the remaining challenges require integration of representation, characterization and modeling of the studied systems along a wide range of spatial and time scales. Such an approach, intrinsically - lated to systems biology, is poised to ultimately turning biology into a more precise and synthetic discipline, paving the way to extensive preventive and regenerative medicine 1], drug discovery 20] and treatment optimization 24]. A particularly appealing and effective approach to addressing the complexity of interactions inherent to the biological systems is provided by the new area of c- plex networks 34, 30, 8, 13, 12]. Basically, it is an extension of graph theory 10], focusing on the modeling, representation, characterization, analysis and simulation ofcomplexsystemsbyconsideringmanyelementsandtheirinterconnections.C- plex networks concepts and methods have been used to study disease 17], tr- scription networks 5, 6, 4], protein-protein networks 22, 36, 16, 39], metabolic networks 23] and anatomy 40]. |