[ Your Name ] would like to inform you about this article on Complexity Digest 2011.14 - 06 http://comdig.unam.mx/index.php?id_issue=2011.14#34882 2011/07/22 [ Your Message ] Editor-in-Chief: Carlos Gershenson Founding Editor: Gottfried Mayer Complex Networks, Artificial Life Excerpt: Graph theory was initiated by Euler in the eighteenth century. In mathematics, graph theory con- solidated itself in the following decades and centuries. However, it was only a little more than a decade ago that an explosion of research and applications occurred, in what is now referred to as network science. In particular, networks have become a central tool in the study of complex systems. The language of nodes and edges provided by networks has proven to be very illustrative of model elements of a system (nodes) and their interactions (edges). Having a language that describes interactions is essential for a non-reductionist science. Source: Complex Networks[ http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/artl_e_00037 ], Carlos Gershenson, Mikhail Prokopenko, DOI: 10.1162/artl_e_00037, Artificial Life, Early Access, 2011/07/15 You can discuss this article on Articles Forum http://comdig.unam.mx/topic.php?id_article=34882