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    <li><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">By focusing on the properties of real-world networks, it is concerned with empirical as well as theoretical questions </font></li>
    <li><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">It frequently takes the view that networks are not static, but evolve in time according to various dynamical rules </font></li>
    <li><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">It aims, ultimately at least, to understand networks not just as topological objects, but also as the framework upon which distributed dynamical systems are built.</font> </li>
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<p><em>(Reference: The Structure and Dynamics of Networks/ Mark Newman, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, and Duncan J. Watts)<br />
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