Disrupted Networks : From Physics to Climate Change.
Title:
Disrupted Networks : From Physics to Climate Change.
Author:
West, Bruce J.
ISBN:
9789814304313
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (316 pages)
Series:
Studies of Nonlinear Phenomena in Life Science
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- DISRUPTED NETWORKS -- DISRUPTED NETWORKS -- 1 Why a Science of Networks? -- WHY A SCIENCE OF NETWORKS -- 1.1 The science of data, information and knowledge -- 1.2 The face of science -- 1.2.1 Qualitative and quantitative -- 1.2.2 What is a complex network? -- 1.2.3 A taxonomy of complex networks -- 1.2.4 The three-tiers of science -- 1.3 Framing the climate change debate -- 1.3.1 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- 1.3.2 Climate topologies in comparison -- 2 Data -- 2.1 Physics as a scientific paradigm -- 2.1.1 Psychophysics quantifies individuals -- 2.1.2 Sociophysics quantifies groups -- 2.1.3 Econophysics quantifies exchange -- 2.1.4 Biophysics quantifies life -- 2.2 Time series -- 2.2.1 Measures and data -- 2.2.2 Representing the data -- 2.3 Fractal statistics -- 2.4 Solar and climate variability -- 2.4.1 Solar data -- 2.4.2 Temperature data -- 3 Information -- 3.1 Entropy -- 3.1.1 Wiener-Shannon Information -- 3.1.2 The Physicality of Information -- 3.2 Pareto's Law -- 3.2.1 Economic networks -- 3.2.2 Science networks -- 3.2.3 Information networks -- 3.2.4 Social-communication networks -- 3.2.5 Networks of neurons -- 3.3 Entropy and data processing -- 3.3.1 Diffusion of Information -- 3.3.2 Diffusion entropy analysis -- 3.4 Sun-climate complexity matching? -- 4 Knowledge -- 4.1 Mathematics enables knowledge -- 4.2 The Pareto Principle: the 80/20 rule -- 4.3 What we know about complex networks -- 4.3.1 Random networks -- 4.3.2 Scale-free networks and the STDs epidemic -- 4.3.3 Scale-rich networks -- 4.4 The Sun-climate linking: an ongoing debate . -- 4.4.1 The Hockey Stick graph and the climate models -- 4.4.2 The 11-year solar cycle signature on climate: models vs. data -- 4.4.3 The phenomenological reconstruction of the solar signature on climate -- 5 A World of Disrupted Networks -- Glossary.
Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
This book provides a lens through which modern society is shown to depend on complex networks for its stability. One way to achieve this understanding is through the development of a new kind of science, one that is not explicitly dependent on the traditional disciplines of biology, economics, physics, sociology and so on; a science of networks. This text reviews, in non-mathematical language, what we know about the development of science in the twenty-first century and how that knowledge influences our world. In addition, it distinguishes the two-tiered science of the twentieth century, based on experiment and theory (data and knowledge) from the three-tiered science of experiment, computation and theory (data, information and knowledge) of the twenty-first century in everything from psychophysics to climate change. This book is unique in that it addresses two parallel lines of argument. The first line is general and intended for a lay audience, but one that is scientifically sophisticated, explaining how the paradigm of science has been changed to accommodate the computer and large-scale computation.The second line of argument addresses what some consider the seminal scientific problem of climate change. The authors show how a misunderstanding of the change in the scientific paradigm has led to a misunderstanding of complex phenomena in general, and the causes of global warming in particular.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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