Networks in Action
Subtitle: Communication, Economics and Human Knowledge
By: edited by David Batten, John Casti, Roland Thord
Contributors: Casti, John; Thord, Roland
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9783642633768; 9783642578434
Subjects: Computer communication networks; Engineering; Geography; Economics; Regional economics
Description: This book presents the latest information on both the theory and applications of networks, especially from the fields of transportation and communication, economics and human knowledge handling. It demonstrates that networks are of broad interest and that networks analysis from different disciplines offer unifying insight. Special attention is paid to networks in the ever increasing integration of Europe. Another point of focus is upon combinatorial aspects and the interactive effects between different networks, often known as synergetics.
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Table of contents: title: Contents: Networks Theory: The Theory of Networks; title: Links. Arrows, and Networks: Fundamental Metaphors in Human Thought; title: The Multidimensional Networks of Complex Systems; title: Network as Dynamic Systems; title: Communication and Human Knowledge: Network Models of Human-Machine Interaction; title: Knowledge Network and Market Structure: An Analytical Perspective; title: Economic Models of Knowledge Networks; title: Videoconferencing: Economic Arguments on an Overrated Communication Network; title: Infrastructure Networks: Overland Transportation Networks: History of Development and Future Prospects; title: The Strategic Role of New Infrastructure Networks in Europe; title: Europe's Hierarchical Network Economy; title: Economic Networks: Networks, Sustainable Differentiation, and Economic Development; title: The Dynamics of Economic Networks; title: Economic Network Synergetics.