Modern financial markets are characterized by a rapid flow of information, a vast number of
participants having diversified investment horizons, and multiple feedback mechanisms …

The brain is expensive, incurring high material and metabolic costs for its size—relative to
the size of the body—and many aspects of brain network organization can be mostly …

Transfer Entropy Page 1 Chapter 4 Transfer Entropy In this chapter we get to the essential
mathematics of the book—a detailed discussion of transfer entropy. To begin with we look at …

Extensive cooperation among unrelated individuals is unique to humans, who often sacrifice
personal benefits for the common good and work together to achieve what they are unable …

The modern science of networks has brought significant advances to our understanding of
complex systems. One of the most relevant features of graphs representing real systems is …

Coupled biological and chemical systems, neural networks, social interacting species, the
Internet and the World Wide Web, are only a few examples of systems composed by a large …

Many complex systems in nature and society can be described in terms of networks
capturing the intricate web of connections among the units they are made of 1, 2, 3, 4. A key …

Synchronization processes in populations of locally interacting elements are the focus of
intense research in physical, biological, chemical, technological and social systems. The …

Using the CAViaR tool to estimate the value-at-risk (VaR) and the Granger causality risk test
to quantify extreme risk spillovers, we propose an extreme risk spillover network for …

A variety of different social, natural and technological systems can be described by the same
mathematical framework. This holds from the Internet to food webs and to boards of …