This book bridges the gap between advances in the communities of computer science and physics--namely machine learning and statistical physics. It contains diverse but relevant topics in statistical physics, complex systems, network theory, and machine learning. Examples of such topics are: predicting missing links, higher-order generative modeling of networks, inferring network structure by tracking the evolution and dynamics of digital traces, recommender systems, and diffusion processes.
The book contains extended versions of high-quality submissions received at the workshop, Dynamics On and Of Complex Networks (doocn.org), together with new invited contributions. The chapters will benefit a diverse community of researchers. The book is suitable for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and professors of various disciplines including sociology, physics, mathematics, and computer science.

Presents views and results from leading experts in network science Contains many illustrations, tables, as well as pseudocode samples

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Part1. Network Structure.- Chapter1. An Empirical Study of the Effect of Noise Models on Centrality Metrics.- Chapter2. Emergence and Evolution of Hierarchical Structure in Complex Systems.- Chapter3. Evaluation of Cascading Infrastructure Failures and Optimal Recovery from a Network Science Perspective.- Part2. Network Dynamics.- Chapter4. Automatic Discovery of Families of Network Generative Processes.- Chapter5. Modeling User Dynamics in Collaboration Websites.- Chapter6. The Problem of Interaction Prediction in Link Streams.- Chapter7. The Network Source Location Problem in the Context of Foodborne Disease Outbreaks.- Part3. Theoretical Models and applications.- Chapter8. Network Representation Learning using Local Sharing and Distributed Graph Factorization (LSDGF).- Chapter9. The Anatomy of Reddit: An Overview of Academic Research.- Chapter10. Learning Information Dynamics in Social Media: A Temporal Point Process Perspective.