Complex Networks

Results of the 1st International Workshop on Complex Networks (CompleNet 2009)

225 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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].

• Reihe: Studies in Computational Intelligence
• Themen: Informatik und Informationstechnologie Computerprogrammierung und Softwareentwicklung Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen
• ISBN: 9783642269318
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.03.2012
• Größe: 23.5 x 15.5 cm
• Verlag: Springer Berlin
• Herausgegeben von: Ronaldo Menezes, Santo Fortunato, Giuseppe Mangioni, Vincenzo Nicosia