Dimitri Volchenkov: 3 books
Survival under Uncertainty
An Introduction to Probability Models of Social Structure and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
This book introduces and studies a number of stochastic models of subsistence, communication, social evolution and political transition that will allow the reader to grasp the role of uncertainty as a fundamental property of our irreversible world. At the same time, it aims to bring about a more...
Random Walks and Diffusions on Graphs and Databases
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Most networks and databases that humans have to deal with contain large, albeit finite number of units. Their structure, for maintaining functional consistency of the components, is essentially not random and calls for a precise quantitative description of relations between nodes (or data units) and...
Grammar of Complexity
From Mathematics to a Sustainable World
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
The book is an introduction, for both graduate students and newcomers to the field of the modern theory of mesoscopic complex systems, time series, hypergraphs and graphs, scaled random walks, and modern information theory. As these are applied for the exploration and characterization of complex systems....