Networks, Topology and Dynamics: Theory and Applications to Economics and Social Systems

✍ Scribed by Klavdija Kutnar, Dragan Marušič (auth.), Ahmad K. Naimzada, Silvana Stefani, Anna Torriero (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 284
• Series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 613
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The volume, devoted to recent contributions to the field of networks modelling, offers a wide panorama of recent advances, both theoretical and methodological, that will interest academics as well as practitioners.

Theory and applications are nicely integrated: theoretical papers are in graph theory, game theory, coalitions, dynamics, consumer behaviour, segregation models and new contributions to the area are offered. The applications cover a wide range: airline transportation, financial markets, work team organization, labour and credit market.

The volume can be used as a reference book for graduate and postgraduate courses on network theory and complex systems in faculties of economics, mathematics, engineering or social sciences.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Some Topics in Graph Theory....Pages 3-22
From Graph Theory to Models of Economic Networks. A Tutorial....Pages 23-63
Games of Coalition and Network Formation: A Survey....Pages 67-93
Network Formation with Closeness Incentives....Pages 95-109
A Dynamic Model of Segregation in Small-World Networks....Pages 111-126
Interdependent Preferences....Pages 127-142
Co-Evolutive Models for Firms Dynamics....Pages 143-158
Betweenness Centrality: Extremal Values and Structural Properties....Pages 161-175
How to Reduce Unnecessary Noise in Targeted Networks....Pages 177-193
The Dynamic Behaviour of Non-Homogeneous Single-Unireducible Markov and Semi-Markov Chains....Pages 195-211
Shareholding Networks and Centrality: An Application to the Italian Financial Market....Pages 215-228
Network Dynamics when Selecting Work Team Members....Pages 229-239
Empirical Analysis of the Architecture of the Interbank Market and Credit Market Using Network Theory....Pages 241-256
Network Measures in Civil Air Transport: A Case Study of Lufthansa....Pages 257-282
On Certain Graph Theory Applications....Pages 283-291

✦ Subjects

Economic Theory; Game Theory/Mathematical Methods; Complexity; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences; Quantitative Finance; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences