The shortest path to complex networks
<|reference_start|>The shortest path to complex networks: 1. The birth of network science. 2. What are random networks? 3. Adjacency matrix. 4. Degree distribution. 5. What are simple networks? Classical random graphs. 6. Birth of the giant component. 7. Topology of the Web. 8.Uncorrelated networks. 9. What are small worlds? 10. Real networks are mesoscopic objects. 11. What are complex networks? 12. The configuration model. 13. The absence of degree--degree correlations. 14.Networks with correlated degrees.15.Clustering. 16. What are small-world networks? 17. `Small worlds' is not the same as `small-world networks'. 18. Fat-tailed degree distributions. 19.Reasons for the fat-tailed degree distributions. 20. Preferential linking. 21. Condensation of edges. 22. Cut-offs of degree distributions. 23. Reasons for correlations in networks. 24. Classical random graphs cannot be used for comparison with real networks. 25. How to measure degree--degree correlations. 26. Assortative and disassortative mixing. 27. Disassortative mixing does not mean that vertices of high degrees rarely connect to each other. 28. Reciprocal links in directed nets. 29. Ultra-small-world effect. 30. Tree ansatz. 31.Ultraresilience against random failures. 32. When correlated nets are ultraresilient. 33. Vulnerability of complex networks. 34. The absence of an epidemic threshold. 35. Search based on local information. 36.Ultraresilience disappears in finite nets. 37.Critical behavior of cooperative models on networks. 38. Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transitions in networks. 39.Cascading failures. 40.Cliques & communities. 41. Betweenness. 42.Extracting communities. 43. Optimal paths. 44.Distributions of the shortest-path length & of the loop's length are narrow. 45. Diffusion on networks. 46. What is modularity? 47.Hierarchical organization of networks. 48. Convincing modelling of real-world networks:Is it possible? 49. The small Web..<|reference_end|>
@article{dorogovtsev2004the,
    title={The shortest path to complex networks},
    author={S.N. Dorogovtsev, J.F.F. Mendes},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0404593},
    year={2004},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cond-mat/0404593},
    primaryClass={cond-mat.stat-mech cs.NI nlin.AO q-bio.MN}
}