Networks in Action: Communication, Economics and Human Knowledge

by David Batten (Editor), John Casti (Editor), Roland Thord (Editor)

Overview

fifteen countries in Scandinavia, Europe, Asia, Australia, and U.S.A. All of them came to Skholm primarily because they recognize the growing importance of networks as complex systems, and their home institutions do not offer any systematic lectures on this topic. The Networks Course was originally initiated jointly by the Summer University of Southern Skholm Foundation and the County Council of Skholm, the Swedish Aviation Administration, the Swedish National Road Administration, the Swedish Post, the Swedish State Railways, and Telia AB. They have all served as joint sponsors and hosts for the Course. In the year 1993 the Course also was sponsored by the Swedish Transport and Communications Research Board. All these organizations have supported the publication of a series of key lectures from the Course, to be released as a single volume entitled Networks in Action. It is the ambition of the Foundation to create continuity in its activities for the future. The board has proposed to its principals to take a decision in this direction. It is my expectation that this will be the case for the Networks Course from 1995. This book will then serve as a basic reference for use in an era when the topic of Communication-Networks will be included on a permanent basis in the Summer University's agenda.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642633768
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	10/23/2012
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995
Pages:	327
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Networks Theory.- The Theory of Networks.- Links, Arrows, and Networks: Fundamental Metaphors in Human Thought.- The Multidimensional Networks of Complex Systems.- Network as Dynamic Systems.- Communication and Human Knowledge.- Network Models of Human-Machine Interaction.- Knowledge Network and Market Structure: An Analytical Perspective.- Economic Models of Knowledge Networks.- Videoconferencing: Economic Arguments on an Overrated Communication Network.- Infrastructure Networks.- Overland Transportation Networks: History of Development and Future Prospects.- The Strategic Role of New Infrastructure Networks in Europe.- Europe’s Hierarchical Network Economy.- Economic Networks.- Networks, Sustainable Differentiation, and Economic Development.- The Dynamics of Economic Networks.- Economic Network Synergetics.- Contributors to this Volume.