Introduction to Focus Issue: Synchronization and Cascading Processes in Complex Networks

Abstract

The study of collective dynamics in complex networks has emerged as a next frontier in the science of networks. This Focus Issue presents the latest developments on this exciting front, focusing in particular on synchronous and cascading dynamics, which are ubiquitous forms of network dynamics found in a wide range of physical, biological, social, and technological systems. © 2011 American Institute of Physics.