fyi, Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 00:11:40 +0000 From: Automatic digest processor <LISTSERV@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Reply-To: Mapping and visualising Internet infrastructure and Web space <MAPPING-CYBERSPACE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> To: Recipients of MAPPING-CYBERSPACE digests <MAPPING-CYBERSPACE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Subject: MAPPING-CYBERSPACE Digest - 16 Jan 2004 to 20 Jan 2004 (#2004-6) There is one message totalling 47 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. New Book from Cambridge University Press ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:28:44 +0000 From: Andy Flower <aflower@CAMBRIDGE.ORG> Subject: New Book from Cambridge University Press List members may be interested in the following new title from Cambridge University Press. If you would like more information please follow the link at the foot of this email. Best wishes, Andy Flower Marketing Controller, Physical Sciences Cambridge University Press Evolution and Structure of the Internet: A Statistical Physics Approach Romualdo Pastor-Satorras Universitat Polit=E8cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona and Alessandro Vespignani Universit=E9 de Paris XI This book describes the application of statistical physics and complex systems theory to the study of the evolution and structure of the internet. Contents: List of abbreviations; Preface; 1. A brief history of the Internet; 2. How the Internet works; 3. Measuring the global Internet; 4. The Internet large scale topology; 5. Modeling the Internet; 6. The Internet robustness; 7. Virtual and social networks in the Internet; 8. Searching and walking on the Internet; 9. Epidemics in the Internet; 10. Beyond the Internet=92s skeleton: traffic and global performance; 11. Outlook; Appendix 1. Graph theory applied to topology analysis; Appendix 2. Interface resolution and router topology; Appendix 3. Numerical analysis of heavy-tailed distributions; Appendix 4. Degree correlations; Appendix 5. Scale-free networks: scaling relations; Appendix 6. The SIR model of virus propagation; Bibliography; Index. For more information please visit http://books.cambridge.org/catalogue.asp?isbn=3D0521826985 ------------------------------ End of MAPPING-CYBERSPACE Digest - 16 Jan 2004 to 20 Jan 2004 (#2004-6) ***********************************************************************