Graph Spectra for Complex Networks

Graph Spectra for Complex Networks
Author: Piet van Mieghem
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2010-12-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1139492276

Analyzing the behavior of complex networks is an important element in the design of new man-made structures such as communication systems and biologically engineered molecules. Because any complex network can be represented by a graph, and therefore in turn by a matrix, graph theory has become a powerful tool in the investigation of network performance. This self-contained 2010 book provides a concise introduction to the theory of graph spectra and its applications to the study of complex networks. Covering a range of types of graphs and topics important to the analysis of complex systems, this guide provides the mathematical foundation needed to understand and apply spectral insight to real-world systems. In particular, the general properties of both the adjacency and Laplacian spectrum of graphs are derived and applied to complex networks. An ideal resource for researchers and students in communications networking as well as in physics and mathematics.

Graph Spectra for Complex Networks

Graph Spectra for Complex Networks
Author: Piet Van Mieghem
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2023-09-21
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1009366785

This concise and self-contained introduction builds up the spectral theory of graphs from scratch, including linear algebra and the theory of polynomials. Covering several types of graphs, it provides the mathematical foundation needed to understand and apply spectral insight to real-world communications systems and complex networks.

Complex Graphs and Networks

Complex Graphs and Networks
Author: Fan R. K. Chung
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2006
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0821836579

Graph theory is a primary tool for detecting numerous hidden structures in various information networks, including Internet graphs, social networks, biological networks, or any graph representing relations in massive data sets. This book explains the universal and ubiquitous coherence in the structure of these realistic but complex networks.

An Introduction to the Theory of Graph Spectra

An Introduction to the Theory of Graph Spectra
Author: Dragoš Cvetković
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-10-15
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780521134088

This introductory text explores the theory of graph spectra: a topic with applications across a wide range of subjects, including computer science, quantum chemistry and electrical engineering. The spectra examined here are those of the adjacency matrix, the Seidel matrix, the Laplacian, the normalized Laplacian and the signless Laplacian of a finite simple graph. The underlying theme of the book is the relation between the eigenvalues and structure of a graph. Designed as an introductory text for graduate students, or anyone using the theory of graph spectra, this self-contained treatment assumes only a little knowledge of graph theory and linear algebra. The authors include many new developments in the field which arise as a result of rapidly expanding interest in the area. Exercises, spectral data and proofs of required results are also provided. The end-of-chapter notes serve as a practical guide to the extensive bibliography of over 500 items.

Spectra of Graphs

Spectra of Graphs
Author: Andries E. Brouwer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2011-12-17
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1461419395

This book gives an elementary treatment of the basic material about graph spectra, both for ordinary, and Laplace and Seidel spectra. The text progresses systematically, by covering standard topics before presenting some new material on trees, strongly regular graphs, two-graphs, association schemes, p-ranks of configurations and similar topics. Exercises at the end of each chapter provide practice and vary from easy yet interesting applications of the treated theory, to little excursions into related topics. Tables, references at the end of the book, an author and subject index enrich the text. Spectra of Graphs is written for researchers, teachers and graduate students interested in graph spectra. The reader is assumed to be familiar with basic linear algebra and eigenvalues, although some more advanced topics in linear algebra, like the Perron-Frobenius theorem and eigenvalue interlacing are included.

Spectra of Graphs

Spectra of Graphs
Author: Dragoš M. Cvetković
Publisher:
Total Pages: 374
Release: 1980
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN:

The theory of graph spectra can, in a way, be considered as an attempt to utilize linear algebra including, in particular, the well-developed theory of matrices for the purposes of graph theory and its applications. to the theory of matrices; on the contrary, it has its own characteristic features and specific ways of reasoning fully justifying it to be treated as a theory in its own right.

Recent Results in the Theory of Graph Spectra

Recent Results in the Theory of Graph Spectra
Author: D.M. Cvetkovic
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 319
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0080867766

The purpose of this volume is to review the results in spectral graph theory which have appeared since 1978. The problem of characterizing graphs with least eigenvalue -2 was one of the original problems of spectral graph theory. The techniques used in the investigation of this problem have continued to be useful in other contexts including forbidden subgraph techniques as well as geometric methods involving root systems. In the meantime, the particular problem giving rise to these methods has been solved almost completely. This is indicated in Chapter 1. The study of various combinatorial objects (including distance regular and distance transitive graphs, association schemes, and block designs) have made use of eigenvalue techniques, usually as a method to show the nonexistence of objects with certain parameters. The basic method is to construct a graph which contains the structure of the combinatorial object and then to use the properties of the eigenvalues of the graph. Methods of this type are given in Chapter 2. Several topics have been included in Chapter 3, including the relationships between the spectrum and automorphism group of a graph, the graph isomorphism and the graph reconstruction problem, spectra of random graphs, and the Shannon capacity problem. Some graph polynomials related to the characteristic polynomial are described in Chapter 4. These include the matching, distance, and permanental polynomials. Applications of the theory of graph spectra to Chemistry and other branches of science are described from a mathematical viewpoint in Chapter 5. The last chapter is devoted to the extension of the theory of graph spectra to infinite graphs.

Random Graphs and Complex Networks

Random Graphs and Complex Networks
Author: Remco van der Hofstad
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2017
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 110717287X

This classroom-tested text is the definitive introduction to the mathematics of network science, featuring examples and numerous exercises.

Graph Theory and Complex Networks

Graph Theory and Complex Networks
Author: Maarten van Steen
Publisher: Maarten Van Steen
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2010
Genre: Graph theory
ISBN: 9789081540612

This book aims to explain the basics of graph theory that are needed at an introductory level for students in computer or information sciences. To motivate students and to show that even these basic notions can be extremely useful, the book also aims to provide an introduction to the modern field of network science. Mathematics is often unnecessarily difficult for students, at times even intimidating. For this reason, explicit attention is paid in the first chapters to mathematical notations and proof techniques, emphasizing that the notations form the biggest obstacle, not the mathematical concepts themselves. This approach allows to gradually prepare students for using tools that are necessary to put graph theory to work: complex networks. In the second part of the book the student learns about random networks, small worlds, the structure of the Internet and the Web, peer-to-peer systems, and social networks. Again, everything is discussed at an elementary level, but such that in the end students indeed have the feeling that they: 1.Have learned how to read and understand the basic mathematics related to graph theory. 2.Understand how basic graph theory can be applied to optimization problems such as routing in communication networks. 3.Know a bit more about this sometimes mystical field of small worlds and random networks. There is an accompanying web site www.distributed-systems.net/gtcn from where supplementary material can be obtained, including exercises, Mathematica notebooks, data for analyzing graphs, and generators for various complex networks.

Graph Representation Learning

Graph Representation Learning
Author: William L. William L. Hamilton
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2022-06-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3031015886

Graph-structured data is ubiquitous throughout the natural and social sciences, from telecommunication networks to quantum chemistry. Building relational inductive biases into deep learning architectures is crucial for creating systems that can learn, reason, and generalize from this kind of data. Recent years have seen a surge in research on graph representation learning, including techniques for deep graph embeddings, generalizations of convolutional neural networks to graph-structured data, and neural message-passing approaches inspired by belief propagation. These advances in graph representation learning have led to new state-of-the-art results in numerous domains, including chemical synthesis, 3D vision, recommender systems, question answering, and social network analysis. This book provides a synthesis and overview of graph representation learning. It begins with a discussion of the goals of graph representation learning as well as key methodological foundations in graph theory and network analysis. Following this, the book introduces and reviews methods for learning node embeddings, including random-walk-based methods and applications to knowledge graphs. It then provides a technical synthesis and introduction to the highly successful graph neural network (GNN) formalism, which has become a dominant and fast-growing paradigm for deep learning with graph data. The book concludes with a synthesis of recent advancements in deep generative models for graphs—a nascent but quickly growing subset of graph representation learning.