Dynamical systems on networks. A tutorial (Q896051)

The book is a relatively concise tutorial and a summary of references for the study of dynamical systems on networks. It has 80 pages and 335 references. Apart from the introductory and concluding sections, the tutorial consists of 4 sections. The first section called ``Examples of dynamical systems'' contains an overview of several issues: Percolation problems, biological contagions (population models on networks), Voter models, and coupled oscillators. For each of these rather large topics, a general idea is explained and a set of citations is mentioned. In the next section ``General considerations'', the ideas of Master Stability Function and some other methods for studying the relation between the local dynamics and global observables are mentioned. Section 5 contains notes on software implementation, and Section 6 presents a 3-pages overview of dynamical systems on dynamical networks, i.e. the networks, which change their structure with time. This tutorial may serve as an accompanying source for the introduction to the field ''Dynamical systems on networks''.