Algorithmics of Large and Complex Networks Design, Analysis, and Sim

Networks play a central role in today’s society, since many sectors employing information technology, such as communication, mobility, and transport - even social interactions and political activities - are based on and rely on networks. In these times of

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Jürgen Lerner Dorothea Wagner Katharina A. Zweig (Eds.)

Algorithmics of Large and Complex Networks Design, Analysis, and Simulation

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Volume Editors Jürgen Lerner University of Konstanz, Department of Computer & Information Science 78457 Konstanz, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Dorothea Wagner Technical University of Karlsruhe, Institute of Theoretical Informatics 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Katharina A. Zweig Eötvös Lorand University, Department of Biological Physics Pazmany P. Stny 1A, 1117 Budapest, Hungary E-mail: [email protected]

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Preface

Networks play a central role today, since many aspects of information technology like communication, mobility, and transport are based on networks. Social interactions and political activities of single persons as well as large organizations also rely on networks. In these times of globalization, our social and economic networks have certainly become ever larger and more complex and at the same time the need to understand their structure and the processes on top of them has b