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NETWORK ANALYSIS: METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS by Ulrik Brandes and Thomas Erlebach (editors) Springer, 2005, 471 pp. ISBN: 3-540-24979-6
This book is a compilation of the work of 26 European authors to introduce at the upper undergraduate or early graduate level the enhanced points of network analysis. In essence, applied graph theory for dynamic networks is presented using a computer science perspective. This is a wonderful theoretical reference book for network science. The writing is thorough and rigorous, emphasing algorithm details and theorems concerning the properties of networks with their proofs. As stated in the Introduction, "Applications are mentioned only for motivation or to explain the origins of a particular method", (p. 1) Nevertheless, the Introduction gives three wonderful examples...