Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Historical developments -- Chain-links / F. Karinthy -- Connectivity of random nets / R. Solomonoff and A. Rapoport -- On the evolution of random graphs / P. Erdos and A. Renyl -- Contacts and influence / I. de S. Pool and M. Kochen -- An experimental study of the small world problem / J. Travers and S. Milgram -- Networks of scientific papers / D.J. de S. Price -- Famous trails to Paul Erdos / R. de Castro and J.W. Grossman -- Ch. 3. Empirical studies -- Diameter of the World-Wide Web / R. Albert, H. Jeong and A.-L. Barabasi -- Graph structure in the Web / A. Broder -- On power-law relationships of the Internet topology / M. Faloutsos, P. Faloutsos and C. Faloutsos -- Classes of small-world networks / L.A.N. Amaral, A. Scala, M. Barthelemy and H.E. Stanley -- The large-scale organization of metabolic networks / H. Jeong -- The small world of metabolism / A. Wagner and D. Fell -- Network motifs : simple building blocks of complex networks / R. Milo -- The structure of scientific collaboration networks / M.E.J. Newman -- The Web of human sexual contacts / F. Liljeros -- Ch. 4. Models of networks -- A critical point for random graphs with a given degree sequence / M. Molloy and B. Reed -- A random graph model for massive graphs / W. Aiello, F. Chung and L. Lu -- Random graphs with arbitrary degree distributions and their applications / M.E.J. Newman, S.H. Strogatz and D.J. Watts -- Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks / D.J. Watts and S.H. Strogatz -- Small-world networks : evidence for a crossover picture / M. Barthelemy and L.A.N. Amaral -- Comment on 'small-world networks : evidence for crossover picture' / A. Barrat -- Scaling and percolation in the small-world network model / M.E.J. Newman and D.J. Watts -- On the properties of small-world networks / A. Barrat and M. Weigt -- Emergence of scaling in random networks / A.-L. Barabasi and R. Albert -- Structure of growing networks with preferential linking / S.N. Dorogovtsev, J.F.F. Mendes and A.N. Samukhin -- Connectivity of growing random networks / P.L. Krapivsky, S. Redner and F. Leyvraz -- Competition and multiscalling in evolving networks / G. Bianconi and A.-L. Barabasi -- Universal behavior of load distribution in scale-free networks / K.-I. Goh, B. Kahng and D. Kim -- Spectra of "real-world" graphs : beyond the semicircle law / I.J. Farkas, I. Derenyi, A.-L. Barabasi and T. Vicsek -- The degree sequence of a scale-free random graph process / B. Bollobas, O. Riordan, J. Spencer and G. Tusnady -- A model of large-scale proteome evolution / R.V. Sole, R. Pastor-Satorras, E. Smith and T.B. Kepler -- Modeling of protein interaction networks / A. Vazquez, A. Flammini, A. Maritan and A. Vespignani -- Ch. 5. Applications -- Epidemics with two levels of mixing / F. Ball, D. Mollison and G. Scalia-Tomba -- The effects of local spatial structure on epidemiological invasions / M.J. Keeling -- Small world effect in an epidemiological model / M. Kuperman and G. Abramson -- Epidemic spreading in scale-free networks / R. Pastor-Satorras and A. Vespignani -- A simple model of global cascades on random networks / D.J. Watts -- Error and attack tolerance of complex networks / R. Albert, H. Jeong and A.-L. Barabasi -- Resilience of the Internet to random breakdowns / R. Cohen, K. Erez, D. ben-Avraham and S. Havlin -- Network robustness and fragility : percolation on random graphs / D.S. Callaway, M.E.J. Newman, S.H. Strogatz and D.J. Watts -- Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment / J.M. Kleinberg -- Search in power-law networks / L.A. Adamic, R.M. Lukose, A.R. Puniyani and B.A. Huberman -- Navigation in a small world / J.M. Kleinberg -- Ch. 6. Outlook.

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