Download or read book Multilayer Networks written by Ginestra Bianconi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multilayer networks is a rising topic in Network Science which characterizes the structure and the function of complex systems formed by several interacting networks. Multilayer networks research has been propelled forward by the wide realm of applications in social, biological and infrastructure networks and the large availability of network data, as well as by the significance of recent results, which have produced important advances in this rapidly growing field. This book presents a comprehensive account of this emerging field. It provides a theoretical introduction to the main results of multilayer network science.